Xio Lee made Rhehan sit on a couch while, Rose quickly fetched a gla.s.s of cold water from the kitchen, handing it over to Rhehan. Rhehan took a few sips of the water, feeling better. Everybody else too sat down close to him! Somebody was patting his head, while the other was holding his hand. The more he was being loved and cared, the more unrealistic it seemed to Rhehan.
"I think, I am better! You should continue ahead!" Rhehan looked at Xio Lee"s worried face.
"Ok!" Xio Lee swept his hands across his hair. "Your mother called up the police, telling about his illegal activities and ran off from his hotel. Unfortunately, he is a very strong man, so police could not do anything to him. He caught hold of your mother and was trying to abuse her, when her mother shot a bullet in his genitals to defend herself, with his own gun and ran off with help of Lilly."
Rhehan was stunned to hear the words and looked at her mother in shock!
"My father is...is a...how? Why?" Thoughts messed up in his mind as he came to know about his father"s reality. This was worse than having no father at all. "Is he alive?"
Elizabeth shuddered at the thought of Davis and Rhehan could see the change of expressions on her face. "Yes! He is." He could make out that there was more to the story! A tear dropped down from his eyes as he looked at Elizabeth"s sacred and trembling face.
"When your mother ran off back, in a few days, she got to know that she was expecting you!" Xio Lee, stopped looking at Rhehan"s teary eyes.
"So, I was correct! I was never meant to take birth in the first place. I was a mistake! A big time mistake! All my life I had been thinking about this! Why was I an orphan!!? Did my parents die? Did they not love me!! Now I know the reason!!!" Rhehan closed his eyes as if a sharp knife had penetrated his heart.
"No my baby! No! It"s not like that! I was very happy. Infact, your arrival news gave me a new hope in life, as if my family is coming back!! I was ecstatic that I will have a child, who will look just like me! My entire nine months had been spent, being pampered by aunt Lilly and her mother. Everyday, I would dream about you! How you would look!" Elizabeth held Rhehan"s face, lovingly looking in his green eyes.
"Yes Rhehan! We were too excited. I still remember the first time you kicked in your mother"s womb. We were so excited that we did not sleep the entire night, just to feel more kicks!" Lillian smiled sadly, looking blankly at a wall.
Tears dropped down from Rhehan"s eyes, looking at their sad faces. "Then why!!!!??? Why!!????? Why did you leave me alone!!! Why in the world was I left alone to die!!!!" Rhehan suddenly shouted in despair, loosing control. His face was red and swollen.
Xio Lee hugged him tightly, patting him again and again. "Relax! Relax!" He patted him lovingly, till Rhehan"s breath became smoother and he calmed down.
Xio Lee knew the toughest part of the story was yet to come, when he gets to know that his own father almost killed him!