One Hundred and Fourteen

' A secret? Kept it a secret from you? But I am telling you now, how can it be a secret when I have told you?' he asked clearly angry.

'You could have told me earlier. We have met numerous times since then and you didn't feel that I should know about it? Something that concerns my life and welfare?Something that involved not just me and our relationship: my happiness, but my family as well?' she asked bemused. Not believing what she had just heard and everything seeing too much for her to handle. She was trying hard not to break down in tears.

Felix saw this and was immediately contrite.

'What? Don't tell me you are being a baby. What have I said now that should make you cry?

'Did you ever consider that I refrained from telling you because I wanted to protect you? I wanted you not to know just how low your father was willing to stoop to keep us apart.

I know that I have not wronged him in any way. My only fault is that I am not rich yet.