Everyone started passing around the photos I’d thrown down.
There was Nicole hugging Jerry.
Kissing shots, and the ultimate–a bedroom photo.
Taken by Nicole herself, complete with her taunting message to me: “Don’t think marrying him gets you Jerry. He’s obsessed with my body.”
Our explosive argument instantly drew everyone’s attention.
Someone couldn’t hold back a shocked gasp:
“What!
The homewrecker’s daughter got her claws into Jerry!
Tsk tsk, the Millers really aren’t picky!”
Nicole stormed in at the commotion, snatching photos from hands and tearing them up.
“Fakes! All doctored by that bitch Pamela to frame me!”
The crowd watched in hushed anticipation as Lisa charged forward, slapping her hard across the face.
“You wretched girl! First your mother wrecked my marriage, now you’re ruining my son’s!
What curse brought your vile mother–daughter pair upon us?”
Jerry rushed to help Nicole off the floor.
Raymond held Lisa back but turned to demand, “Is this true?”
Nicole just hung her head, sobbing.
Jerry looked from his father to me. “I can explain–it’s a misunderstanding!”
Jennifer, also invited, produced a recorder. “I’ve got audio proof she sent me. Care to hear?”
Nicole panicked, lunging for it, but Daniel blocked her path.
“Scared now? Had the guts to send it, not to own it?”
Lisa shook off Raymond’s grip, digging nails into Nicole’s arm as she dragged her toward the balcony. “Shameless se- ductress!
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Why don’t you just die!”
Jerry tried intervening while throwing me a pleading look.
I rolled my eyes, turning to leave.
Raymond bellowed, “Enough!”
Everyone froze. Only Nicole’s whimpers broke the silence.
Raymond demanded, “You two… actually together?”
As Jerry opened his mouth, Raymond cut in, “Quiet. I want her answer.”
Nicole gazed at Jerry with tender affection, pulling a report from her purse.
Handing it to Raymond, she murmured, “Dad, we’re truly in love. He just lost his way with Pamela clouding his heart.”
“Got the results this morning. Our baby… is two weeks along.”
Raymond staggered back, gasping for breath as others steadied him.
“What!”
Jerry snatched the paper, ignoring his father’s state.
Hands trembling, he hissed at Nicole, “You said you took the pill!”
Nicole’s eyes blazed with triumph. “I just wanted us together, brother!
You love me!
Our bodies fit together so perfectly-”
“I mistook you for Pamela that first time!”
“First time a mistake? What about all the times after?” Her words sealed every escape route.
Still Jerry clutched my sleeve desperately. “Pamela, you’re the only one I love.
Please believe me!”
“Love me? When Nicole came to you in the middle of the night, you ditched me to stay in her room till dawn. When she had her period, you cooked Honey Glazed Pork Ribs and brewed Herbal Ginger Infusion. Tell me, what have you ever done for me in all these years of marriage?
You bought her a necklace and gave me the freebie ring.
You claimed you were accompanying her overseas for medical treatment, yet she ended up pregnant. This is your def- inition of love?”
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“I forced myself to give you chance after chance, until I couldn’t lie to myself anymore.”
“So do us both a favor–divorce me cleanly, marry Nicole, and be a decent husband to her. I might still respect you for that.”
Raymond slammed his cane against the floor. “Absolutely not! I forbid this union!”
Someone whispered, “Aren’t Jerry and Nicole step–siblings? If they already have a child together, what’s the harm? Why is Raymond so furious?”
The comment struck Lisa like lightning.
She stopped rubbing her ex–husband’s back, sudden understanding dawning.
Her eyes blazed as she confronted him. “Tell me–is Nicole your biological daughter?”
The room froze.
Though Raymond frantically shook his head, Lisa’s intuition screamed confirmation.
“I had just gotten pregnant with Jerry when you started those ‘business trips‘ every other day. You vanished for a week during his christening party. And Nicole’s birthday? Exactly three months after his!” Her voice turned icy. “Ev- ery year since, you’ve magically had ‘urgent matters‘ on that date!”
Nicole shrieked, “Impossible!”
Jennifer covered her mouth, murmuring beside me,
“Now it makes sense! No wonder Raymond opposed them–they’re blood siblings!”
“True forbidden romance! My god, actual incest! Do you think their baby will have deformities?”
My stomach churned. Shaking off Jerry’s hand, I spat, “Don’t touch me. You’re dirty.”
Jerry finally snapped out of his daze, lunging at his father. “Dad… is it true?”
Lisa yanked a hair from Raymond’s head, then marched to Nicole for another. She handed both to an assistant. “Get me express paternity results!”
Raymond gasped for air, unable to speak. His wheezing intensified before he collapsed unconscious.
The family gathering descended into chaos.
Walking home, Jennifer mused, “Our divorce is practically guaranteed now.”
Beside us, her brother Daniel traced circles on my palm with his fingertip–each touch unraveling me further.
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Soon, the Miller family became the talk of the town.
