Chapter 34: Chapter 34

Celeste came out of Gilbert, Shawn's father's cabin and heaved a sigh. For the past two months his situation was getting worse. His body stopped responding to the chemotherapy and slowly the doctors were losing hope. Celeste felt bad thinking about Shawn. He was really heartbroken. His mother already died when he was just a teenager and that time his father was also about to leave him very soon. He only had his father and an elder sister to call as family. If his father died then it would be only him and his sister.

Celeste knew how it felt to lose a loved one. She had been there many times. Look at her now.

She had no one to call her own. No one to call her family. So what? There were many people like her. If you haven’t met one yet, then just visit the orphanage.

Suddenly she remembered something from a year ago. A memory which had completely changed her life. Celeste shook her head and smiled before starting to walk towards the door.

All of sudden her phone started to ring. She took out her phone from her purse and it found it was Liam.

Again.

Celeste debated with herself whether to answer his call or not. She had been trying to stay away as much as possible from him from the day Shawn had almost blurted out her secret to him. That day she had realised she had unknowingly let him in again in her life which was really stupid of her.

He was Liam Rodriguez whom she loved dearly. She still loved him but didn’t want him in her life anymore. She knew he wasn’t hers and he once said he already had a girlfriend. Then how could she sleep with him despite knowing he had a girlfriend?

Well they were adults and she was in a vulnerable situation in her life which led her to fall into the heat of the moment. But she didn’t feel guilty. She refused to feel guilty. She already had sex with him a countless time before so having sex with him two times more didn’t really matter. The difference was she was his wife before and now she was his ex wife.

Whatever it was. It shouldn’t happen again. So from that day Celeste had made up her mind and decided to stay away from Liam as much as she could. Fortunately their company's new project made them both really busy including other members. Even though Liam occasionally tried to trap her but most of the time she had successfully escaped. The phone stopped ringing making Celeste come out of her thoughts. She sighed and turned towards the left to go out of the hospital when she bumped into someone.

"Ouch! I'm sorry! I didn’t see where I was g-" Celeste hurriedly apologised and looked up at the person only to be surprised.

"Amy!" She called out, really surprised. Amy's face went from happy to confusion as she stared at Celeste with questioning eyes. Celeste slowly noticed Amy was holding a 3-4 years toddler's hand. It was a boy and the baby's face looked very similar so someone she knew very well.

Rafael!

How could this be!

"Yes? I'm sorry but do I know you?Amy said after a moment with a smile. Celeste looked at her with a confused expression. Why was she pretending like she didn’t know her?

"You don't know me? Come on Amy! I'm Celeste." Celeste said with a frown. She didn’t understand why she was pretending not to know her.

"Uhm I'm sorry but I don't remember meeting you before. Perhaps you have mistaken me with someone else." Amy said politely while picking up the baby boy in her arms.

"We lived in the same house. We were sisters in laws and you are saying you don't know me? It's okay, If you don't want to talk to me but there's no need to pretend." Celeste said with a force smile as looked at Amy then at The baby boy. How could this be possible? So many similarities. Didn’t Amy had a miscarriage? Then how could there be a child looking exactly like Rafael? How?!

"I'm sorry but truly don't know you. Perhaps you have mistaken me as my twin sister Ashley. Do you know her? " Amy said after thinking for a moment. Celeste looked at her with wide eyes. She felt her whole body shake with surprise.

"Ashley? Twin? What do you mean? You are Amy but you're not the Amy I know?"

Celeste asked, astonished. She truly didn’t understand what's going on. If she wasn’t Amy then how could she have a baby who looked exactly like Rafael?

How!

"Uhm I'm Amelia but My family calls me Amy. From your Point Of View I think you are talking about my twin sister Ashley. We are identical twins." Amy or Amelia said with a smile. Celeste looked carefully at her face. Same black hair, same black eyes, same asian features and slim build. Then Celeste's eyes landed on the mole below her eyebrows. She looked at the mole with eyes filled with surprise. Amy didn’t have any mole there. This woman wasn’t lying. She was Amelia but not Rafale's wife Amy.

"Whose baby is this?" Celeste asked while looking at Amelia with eyes filled with fears. She already knew the answer but she wanted to hear it from Amelia. There's a lot of questions going through her mind and only Amelia could answer them.

"What do you mean? Of course It's mine. I'm his biological mother." Amelia said with a frown while holding the baby possessively. Displeasure towards Celeste was evident in her eyes. Celeste sighed and took a deep breath to calm herself down. She needed to think properly and sort this out.

"I'm sorry, I didn’t mean that. I don’t know how to say all this. I don’t know what's happening. You know Rafael Rodriguez, right?" Celeste said and then asked the last part looking directly at Amelia's eyes. Instantly Amelia's face lost all its colour as she made her grip on her baby tight. Fear and confusion was evident on her face before it turned into completely blank.

"Who are you?" She asked looking directly at Celeste's eyes. Celeste knew that it was the time for those unrevealed secrets to finally come out.

"Come with me. There's something you and I both need to know." Celeste said while holding Amelia's hand. Amelia looked at their joint hands first then at Celeste.

"You can trust me. I will not harm you or your baby. All I can tell you is there's some big conspiracy going on around us and you need to help me so break it." Celeste said while holding Amelia's one hand in both of hers. Amelia looked at Celeste for a while with hesitation before finally nodding.

"Thank you, Amelia. For trusting me." Celeste said while smiling at Amelia and then at the familiar face of the baby boy who was stealing glances at her from the very beginning. Amelia nodded and smiled back before following Celeste.