The “Something Old” - 2031 - Part 8
“I’ve been reading about Leo this, Leo bloody that and I can’t believe I didn’t realize he was an Azure. I mean all the evidence was here. I must be a terrible bloody journalist.”
Jessica sighed as she felt Dori’s arms wrap around her body. A gentle kiss met her neck as he turned her around to face him and cupped her face soon after.
“You’re being too hard on yourself Jess, you know what helps with that? Sleep.”
Okay… maybe he was right. After putting Shay to bed, Jessica had spent the next three hours going through all of her mother’s belongings in the box she had… “borrowed” and… well… had yet to give back to her mother. What? It’s not like her mum was missing it. Anyways, she hadn’t just gone though it once, she went through it again, and again, and again.
Jessica had overanalyzed all the photos of her mom and Leo being all bloody in love, she had reread the inscription of her mom’s bracelet “For the girl who’s going to change the world - Leo”, she had reviewed every single item in that bloody box. Honestly, at this point she knew those belongings better than she knew her own things.
After that, Jess had spent the rest of the time re-reading the journal - now with her journalistic lens on. She hadn’t even finished yet, still having dozens of pages to read… not to mention Jess was 100% sure this was one journal of many. Plus, after skimming the rest of the pages, Jess also noticed there were multiple pages ripped out of the book… pages that left a clear hole in the story of what occurred with her mother who was engaged to another man. The pages she was reading ended on her mom being excited about being “engaged” to Leonardo Azure, and started up again months later with her mom talking about a plan she had to go to a political speech - no mention of Leo or what happened.
So that was the question - what happened?
How did her mom end up with her dad when there was this entire bloody book about this epic love story with another man… not to mention that said man was her ex boyfriend’s father.
“Jess… Jesssssss… JESSICA SOPHIA DELOUGHREY.”
Shaking her head, Jess found herself coming back to reality - meeting Dori’s eyes who… seemingly had been calling her name for a while. “Sorry… bloody hell my head hurts,” Jess whispered, wrapping her arms around his neck. “Wait… did you just call me… you arse, I thought we agreed you were going to become Dorian Pierce.”
“In your… how would you say it? ‘Bloody’ dreams which is what you’re going to be doing in a bit, because we’re not staying awake any longer.”
With those words, Jess found Dori picking her up and placing her on the bed. 1. Rude. 2. If she was less tired, she would have argued. But hopefully - she’d find some answers from her mom in a few hours.
“What are we going to do, Harry?” A small frown met Addie’s lips as she laid her head on her husband’s shoulder. “Honestly… I don’t want to lie to her. I know we said we’d keep this to ourself but… she’s our daughter. It’s been so many years and things are so different now. We’re different you know? I just… I want to be close to her… close to all of our kids because… I didn’t do it right the first time around.”
“I know” Addie heard a sigh leave his lips before he kissed her head. “Then we tell her the truth. I love you Adelaide. I backed you then, I’ll back you now.” “I love you too Harry.”