Strings of Fate

Chapter 182

182- Mothers and meltdowns

Megan does notice my suspicious glare at Darrien’s back. For a moment she’s confused and I can practically see her replaying the last several minutes in her head to see what bothered me. When she figures it out, she smiles at me.

“Did you know that Darrien is very close with his mother. They speak or the phone pretty much every night, even if it’s only for a few seconds. It’s very sweet.” She confides. Oooohhhhh he was talking to his mum. That makes so much sense. I didn’t really think that he would be seeing someone else, but maybe that he had some close female friends that he is kind to. Not that it would be a problem, as long as it was clear that’s all they are. Either way, it’s far better.

“He’s never mentioned his mother to me.” I admit. Megan shrugs.

“He usually waits until he is alone to talk to her. But I’ve seen him texting her sometimes.” She says with a small smile.

“Does she live around her?” I ask and Megan shakes her head.

“Nah, Darrien moved down here a few years ago, but she was already well settled in her community and didn’t want to leave her home.”

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“Oh, then why did he leave?” I think out loud with my head tilted. Darrien descends the stairs in that moment and I blush realising I’ve been talking about him behind his back.

“That’s easy, I left because I needed a challenge. The town I grew up in is a tiny farm town. Not a lot of career opportunities outside of farming, and that never really appealed to me.” He answers me cheerfully, apparently unoffended by my nosiness.

good reason I guess, Do you miss her?” I ask. He

might come and visit me sometime in the next few months.

meet her.” She declares determinedly. She isn’t wrong. I never knew my parents and I find I am extraordinarily interested in

has been nagging at the back of my mind.

Megan flinches at my tone, or maybe at my

say.

Tristain’s mother?” Darrien

is briefly confused, then remembers the

met her?” Megan’s voice is small. I mentally curse myself for speaking without thinking. I should have kept it to myself and just told Bellamy! Or at very least not yelled it out

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Mothers and meltdowns

hurt her. Bellamy and I both tried to shield her from this. She had enough to deal with sorting through her own emotions without being attacked by Tristain’s mother too. Bellamy steps in to help, his arm slipping around my waist,

me the day after he passed. She was very angry and upset, she was definitely looking for someone to blame, refusing to believe her son might have done something wrong. It was… getting out of hand. Ryann came and intervened, managed the situation and sent her away.” He adds with

that happened, insisting that he must have ordered you to end things with Tristain which would have “broken his heart‘ and caused him to lose it and attack.” I explain. Bellamy’s face

one who told Megan that Tristain wasn’t being faithful.” He looks like he’s been struck. Megan is crying and Darrien is already pulling her to his ch*st to

related to Tristain who we already know was very unstable. But, her son was the one who tried to hurt US. Would she really go so far? Commit multiple murders, kidnap a child, just to

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