Chapter 41 Victor figured it was time to go see Carly. He found her outside playing with Lucas. Carly saw him coming and told Lucas to go on inside. Once Lucas was inside, Carly put her hands on her hips and demanded. �What do you want?� �I want to talk,� Victor said stepping closer to his daughter. �I thought I gave you shot to talk wasn�t that what we were doing the day I asked you about why you slept my mother?� Carly demanded. Victor sighed and said, �Carly, I didn�t lie to you.� �You didn�t tell me the entire truth. You left out a very important detail! You forgot to tell me that you knew Ruby was Mikkos wife!� Carly yelled at him. �Carly, please!� Victor begged and he reached out to grab his daughter. �Get off me!� Carly snapped and she shoved Victor�s hand away. �Damn it, Carly, I couldn�t tell you. If Helena found out that her marriage to Mikkos was a lie, all of us would have been targets. I was trying to protect you,� Victor pleaded reaching out in desperation for his daughter. Carly stood there with her back to her father tears falling down her cheeks. She finally turned to him with voice filled emotion. �Why should you care about me? I mean, I�m just your bastard daughter. You took me because it was the proper thing to do. You didn�t do it because cared about,� Carly said with tears filling her eyes. �Do you think that is all you are to me?� Victor asked shocked that she would say such a thing. �You sure hell didn�t do it because loved me? Come on father, you got a hooker pregnant and you had to take the baby. That is how things are in this family. So, don�t feed line of bull now,� Carly said crying. Victor walked to Carly lifted her head to his and said, �I wanted to marry Bobbie. Ok, yes the first time was all sex. I thought it was kick showing a young girl the ropes but then I realized she was human. I started talking to her and I fell in love with her. I went to Ruby and asked her to come back with me bring Luke and Bobbie as well. She turned me down. She wouldn�t budge when I told her that Bobbie was having a baby and that I marry her. She told me I could have you but not Bobbie. She wasn�t allowing Bobbie any where near my family. I tried everything but it didn�t work. So, when you were born, I came to get you and took you home. I did because I loved you not because I had to.� Carly almost believed him. She wanted to believe him but after years of listing to others talk. Carly found it hard to except what he was saying. She turned around and wrapped her arms around her. Victor put his arms around her. �I love you. I always have and always will,� Victor whispered. ***************************** Luke left the island with lots to think about. Not just about Ruby and Mikkos but about himself as well. As he sat there listening to them talk. Luke started to think about his life and things he did. He saw a lot of Mikkos in himself and that bugged him. Ok, the idea that Mikkos and him had anything in common made him sick. The problem was there was no way around what he heard. Luke was standing on the docks thinking when his cell phone rang. �Spencer?� Luke said as he flipped it open. �Daddy, did you forget our date?� Lu asked. Luke looked at his watch. It was almost six. �No, I�m almost there. You better be ready to go when I arrive,� Luke said and he ran back to his car. He shoved his thoughts about Mikkos behind him for now. He had other more important things to work on. *************************************** Robert sat at the club trying to pretend that he was working. It was a real joke thought his mind was on other things and not the numbers that were in front of him. Finally Robert got up to get himself a drink. As he stood there sipping on the brandy the door behind him opened up. �I finally found you,� Anna said as she walked into the office. �I�m not hiding that is your game,� Robert said. Anna closed her eyes and sigh. �Do we have to do this again?� she asked him. �You�re the one that is here. I said everything have to say to you,� Robert said and he went back to the desk picked up his pen and started to work. �Haven�t you ever messed up?� Anna asked her placing her hands on the desktop. �Yes, but you seem to keep same mistakes,� Robert told her. �Ok, I messed up. I should have told you that I was alive? Is this what you want to here?� Anna asked him. �I don�t care any more. I have new Anna. I love Bobbie. I love her kids and she loves my kid. So, why don�t go away and leave us alone,� Robert said. �Robin is my daughter!� Anna said leaning in and getting right into Robert�s face. �Since when?� Robert yelled back slamming the pen down and looking her right in the eye. �She grew up thinking you were a family friend. They you do this stunt on her? So, don�t tell me that you care about her. You don�t know the meaning of the words. Now get out of this office and the hell out of our lives!� Anna stood up and nodded her head. �I�ll leave but I�m not leaving town. You and be angry with me all you want but Robin is still my daughter and I will be part of her life,� Anna yelled just moments before she slammed the door behind her. Out of a fit of rage, Robert knocked the contents of the desk on to the floor. He gripped the edge of the desk, trying hard to cool off. He still couldn�t understand why Anna and Sean lied and used him. He might never understand that. Chapter 42 Back to A Father's Love |