Family Ties

Family is supposed to be our safe haven

Very often it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

|Damiens POV|

I'm the child of a mistress.

A bastard in my fathers eyes and I wasn't worth a second glance. My sperm donor and his wife had got in a fight one night so he went to a bar to let off some steam. He then met my mother and was captivated by her beauty and had what was supposed to be a one night stand. But when he woke up he couldn't let her go and my mother being the gold digger she was completely fine with being a mistress of a married man. Eventually she got pregnant with me and thought that would be her ticket to wealth. She was wrong. She showed up on my fathers doorstep four months pregnant and looking to ruin his perfect family. His wife had opened the door and was confused as to why a pregnant women had shown up looking for her husband. When Alice, my fathers wife found out her husband who could do no wrong in her eyes had cheated on her she was heartbroken.

My father didn't know what to do, it was to late to get rid of the baby and his wife would never trust him again. So he bought my mother a house to live in until she gave birth and lied to his wife. He told her that she drugged him and then asked for money when he woke up naked next to her. And like the fool Alice is, she believed him. When my mother gave birth my father didn't show up, he stayed with his wife and his seven year old son that he loved so much. My mother named me after her father, the only man who had ever loved her wholeheartedly. I never saw my mother again after that. My mother was given a house somewhere with a monthly allowence she spent on drugs. I lived with my fathers perfect family and was taken care of by a nanny my whole life. To the public eye I am the billionare James Landingtons and his beautiful wifes newest son. But behind closed doors I was and still am a bastard. My father hated me and still does for reasons I don't understand. I didn't tell him or make him cheat on his wife. Alice and her son hate me especially my eyes. Alice can't stand them, she said they reminded her of my whore of a mother.

My mother died of a drug overdose when I was ten and the three of them would bring it up as often as they could but I didn't and still don't care. I mean you can't miss what you never had right? I don't know what love is I've never been shown it or experienced it. I'm numb to it all. But right now with her in my arms alsleep without a care in the world.

I'm starting to understand.

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|Aspens POV|

My parents loved me, I know that. I know what love is. I've been shown it, I've experienced it. But it's been so long that the memories have started to fade and I'm forgetting what love is. But right now with me in his arms listening to him talk to his friends while he thinks I'm asleep. While I inhale his scent and feel the heat radiating off of him while listenting to his steady heartbeat.

I'm starting to understand.