Mercy's pov......
Mother entered my house, surprising me,
When did she arrive?
Did She inform Vee that she was coming?
I now couldn't understand what was happening.
" Mother?" I asked perplexedly," why didn't you call to tell me you were coming?"
" I called Eva, didn't she tell you?"
Just what I thought.
" Is she home yet?" She asked sitting down.
" Not yet," I answered, handing her a glass of juice.
" Even better," she said, shocking me," I need to talk to you,"
Now she was scaring me, whenever mother said that it wasn't something friendly.
" About what?'' I worried, sitting down.
" I found your daughter," she frightened me.
My daughter? Asin the little girl I left behind? How? where? I knew mother was obsessed with it, but I didn't think it was to that extent.
" How?" I asked, fixing my gaze at her.
" Remember Dr. Maria?" She asked and I nodded," she told me what happened, how she hit you with her car, how your baby was born premature and how you left her behind.
And after I related it to your story, it had so many similarities,"
" So where is she?" I asked amused," she is alive,"
" You have been living with her for almost two years now,"
I felt my heart suddenly beating faster.
Vanessa? She is my daughter? I couldn't believe it, but my heart was filled with joy, if she was just playing a prank on me, I would have fainted, because the joy I was feeling was just overwhelming.
How I felt connected to her, the first day I met her, now made sense, she's my daughter, my little girl.
How was I going to tell her, she would hate me and the privilege that God had given me to finally be with her, would go to worst.
No, I couldn't let that happen, I wasn't going to lose my beautiful baby girl again.
" Vanessa?" My voice came out hoarse.
" Yes, she is your long-lost daughter Mercy, the one you left at the hospital," she just had to remind me.
Look on the bright side, she grew up in her father's house and enjoyed his wealth as she was supposed to.
" She is going to be so happy to know the truth," she cheered.
" No mother, you can't tell her the truth right now,"
" Are you kidding me? Why not?" She asked, disappointed.
" Mother, I left her at the hospital,28 years ago and you want me to just suddenly tell her," you are my daughter and I left you at the hospital, "Do you think she will be happy to hear that? Her father told her about the adoption and that was the last time he saw her.
Do you want me to go through the same thing? I lost my girl for 28 years mother I wouldn't want to experience that again," I cried, wiping the tears that were falling down my cheeks.
" But keeping the truth from her is what hates her the most. You are running away from her again Mercy,"
" I will tell her the truth, not just today," I promised her," please understand,"
" Mercy," she tried to convince,
" Mother she is my daughter, not yours," I raised my voice.
" Nanny Dorothy?" Vanessa's voice made us turn to the door," you have already arrived,"
" yes my dear," mother answered as she was now hugging her.
" Aunt Mercy?" She called, looking at me worried," are you ok?"
" Am fine, I just have something in my eyes," I stood up," I will go and washed it,"
" Nanny Dorothy, I got engaged, Evans proposed," she showed her beautiful Ring," look, isn't it beautiful? It's a diamond ring,"
" It's beautiful," mother kissed it, "congratulations,"
" Thank you," she giggled.
" Finally after dating for a diploma period," she teased.
" It was less than two years," she laughed.
" Did I hear engaged?" I asked, walking to their sit.
" Yes aunt, look," she showed me her beautiful Ring as I sat down.
" It's beautiful," I kissed her forehead.
" Nanny Dorothy, did Dr. Maria tell you anything?" She asked mother, who hit me with a glance.
" Yes she did," She nodded, "but should we talk about it right now?"
" What did she say? Please tell me," Curiosity could be heard in her voice," does she know anything about my parents?"
" Your mother left you at the hospital when you were born. She has been gone ever since, according to her, your father just raped her and ran away," she explained, glaring at me.
" Did she mention her name or anything I can use to find her?" She asked.
" She doesn't know anything,"
I sighed.
" My life has been full of rejection and now I understand where it all began.," A tear dropped down her cheek,'' First, my father raped my mother and ran away, then my mother ran away from me,"
" Eva,"," Vee," mother and I both called her.
" I want to be alone," she ran to her room and locked her door.
" See mother, that was my fear," my tears welled.
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Eva's POV.....
Why was my life always filled with pain?
Rejected by my parents, that was just too much for me.
There I was thinking Jaden and Natasha were bad people, when they were better, they gave me a life, made me a nobody, into someone.
I hated myself, my mother my father, and everyone in my bloodline.
" Eva?" Aunt Mercy who had just entered, called.
" I said I wanted to be alone," I demanded, turning away from her.
" You said that yesterday, I thought It didn't apply today," she joked, making me glare at her," should I leave?"
" No please stay," I finally turned to her.
" Talk to me," she held my hands.
" Tell me about your life,"
I took it as an opportunity to ask her about her sad life.
" I was born in a happy home, filled with love, joy, and happiness.
Everything I wanted, was given to me, I never lacked a thing.
After I was born, my mother had complications, as a result, she couldn't have another child.
My father's family hated her for that, they forced my father to take a second wife, but he loved my Mother too much, to do that.
As time went on my father got sick and died.
His family accused my mother of bewitching him and killing him.
I was only ten but up to now, I can remember everything very well.
They came, took all our belongings, and left us homeless and hopeless.
We suffered so much that I even once had Malnutrition, due to lack of food.
I attended a community school and went up to grade 9.
When I was 16 I ran away from home, after a friend of mine had told me about a job in Lusaka.
I knew my mother wouldn't have agreed, so I left without telling her.
I started working at the Kangwa mansion as a maid, together with 8 others," she narrated.
" The Kangwas?" I asked amused.
" Yes, madam Gloria and her husband Martin, Jaden's parents,"
" So you know him?" I asked astonished.
" Yes, very well," she answered as I laughed sight," I worked for them faithfully, but after meeting their son, that man who changed my life, things had never been the same, I stole his heart and he robbed mine.
His parents never agreed to our relationship, which rich parents, would allow their child to marry a maid?
They did all they could to get read of me.
I was accused of theft and was thrown in a prison cell.
They released me two weeks later, with the condition of staying away from their son.
I did that and came back to the Copperbelt.
Mother welcomed me and showed me, love, despite what I did.
Life from where I left it continued, the poverty, the nights of sleeping with hunger, all found me again.
I couldn't take it, so I ran away again, this time forever.
I came here to kitwe and started working as a maid for a certain kunda family.
I was fortunate in the area of finding work.
I worked there for two years but they moved.
In the long process of trying to find another job, I met the Lweendos.
They hired me as Evans' nanny and after working for five years, madam Mwelya adopted me as a daughter and sent me back to school, until I became a nurse.
23 years later, I reunited with mother and here we're," she told me.
" You never got married again?"
" I guess my feelings for Jaden just never went away.
He's married to Natasha, but I still love him," despite trying to fight her tears, it didn't work.
"Everyone has a story, Eva, others might have the worst but the important thing is not letting your past get the best out of you," Nanny Dorothy, who had walked in, comforted," we love you and will always be here for you,"
" I will adopt you as my daughter, so that you no longer have to feel you don't have a mother," aunt Mercy, suggested, making me smile.
" And I will be your grandma," Nanny Dorothy added and we all laughed.
" Ok," I smiled," mother,"
" Call me mummy, you called Natasha mother, so I don't want it to remind you of her," she said and I nodded.
" Ok," they both kissed my cheeks and it felt so beautiful.
" We love you," they both said, making me feel so special.
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