Delilah’s head tilted to the side slightly and she looked at him expectantly, almost desperately, when he began to ask how she got it, trying to tell him to stop stalling and get to the explanation. He very quickly got the message as he trailed off and started a new sentence. As he tried to step forward, Delilah, by reflex, stepped the same distance back - as if she was scared of him. Daniel started to relay all of her past back to her, the things Delilah had never wanted to say out loud and talk about.
But that wasn’t even the main part, although she already felt upset and exposed, Daniel still continued. Delilah didn’t say anything at all for a while, though every thought possible was running through her head. She had hated her father for… 10 years now… thinking he didn’t care enough to stay on the right side of the law. Delilah didn’t believe him when he told her he was innocent, she never visited him, in fact, she tried to make a new family through Aurora and Lori to completely replace him - not that they wanted it. Despite it being something she had repressed for most of that time, it had still affected her. How she acted, how she spoke to people, how she went about life. But, now, it wasn’t her father she should have directed her hate at.
“So you knew,” She started, looking back up at him for the answer. “You knew for… two weeks, and you were okay for me to… continue thinking that- and you were okay with the fact that he was still in there-” Delilah stopped, the words making her angry to realise, as she was saying it out loud, what it all meant. She took a long sigh, trying to calm herself before continuing. “Two weeks and how long were you planning on not saying anything? It wasn’t even you who told me, I had to find it for myself,” Delilah said, choking on her own words.
After his attempt to respond to her statements and accusations, Delilah still had a million thoughts running in her head, she had to get another out. “And… how did you not know before?” She said, taking spaces between phrases as she couldn’t find the right words, at this point, the tears she tried to hide were starting to well up in her eyes. “You… you spend your whole life… finding out everyone and their families secrets and exposing them. And you never- you never thought to look up your own… f^cking family tree?” Delilah asked, though she already knew the answer, starting to feel like she couldn’t breathe the more she spoke.
@benitz786 — Daniel Parker