Page 59 of Secrets of the Brother
“Have you asked Bianca?”
I let out a frustrated sigh. “Yes.”
“I’m assuming it didn’t go well?”
I frowned. “Depends on who you ask.”
“Just for fun, let’s say I asked her.”
I rubbed my hand over my eyes. “Then no.”
“So would this be a good or bad time to tell you Milana met up with her today at the cafe?”
“We’ve been standing here chatting about ourfeelingslike two old women for ten minutes andnowyou tell me that? What happened?”
“It wasn’t planned. Bianca spotted her and sat down… and said some things.”
Fuck.
Now my future sister-in-law probably thinks I’m a fucking monster, and she’d be right.
I had completely lost control.
I couldn’t seem to keep my emotions in check where Bianca was concerned… not anymore.
“What Bianca said is true. I was so fucking jealous. Next thing I knew I had her pinned against the door—”
“Whoa! Keep that shit to yourself.”
“Bianca didn’t tell Milana about….”
“Whatever kinky shit you and she did? Fuck no. But it’s bad. Real bad.”
“Tell me.”
“You’re not going to like it.”
“Tell me anyway.”
“Before I do, Bianca made it clear she only learned of this a few days ago and only because that shit excuse of a mother of hers was drunk or high or both.”
My jaw clenched as the fingers of my right hand curled into a fist. “Tell. Me.”
“The night Renata drugged you. The night you supposedly got her pregnant?”
“Yeah?”
“The reason why you can’t remember any of it was not just the drug. It never happened. Renata gave you too much and you passed out. You never fucked her. She just made you believe you had to trap you into marriage. She then faked the whole pregnancy thing.”
Until the coroner’s report, I'd had no way of knowing if Renata had lied about being pregnant from the beginning or had lost the baby early on and just continued to pretend, but I never thought to question whether I had actually fucked her that night. Learning she had never been pregnant had been an enormous blow, but it hadn't taken away my initial betrayal of Bianca's trust.
“I never fucked Renata? It was all a setup from the start?”
“Yep.”
“And Bianca knows it?”
“Apparently.”
