Under Hidden Skies (Shadows Between Lies Book 3) by Nicky Webber

Author:Nicky Webber [Webber, Nicky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Media Publishers Ltd
Published: 2021-05-28T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Confronting the Facts

Sacha and Hawke were alone in the apartment on Sunday morning, picking at their breakfast in silence, both considering the personal impacts of recent revelations.

Hawke scrutinized his plate with half-finished bacon and eggs and lifted his head to look at his girlfriend. ‘Are you okay?’

‘Not really,’ she said, lifting her head to meet his across the table. They paused, considering one another and if they should talk about the elephant in the room.

‘I know. It’s hard to take,’ Hawke said.

‘A bit?’ she offered.

‘Well, what I mean is I keep thinking about us being brother and sister, and I just can’t get my head around it.’

‘You don’t want to accept it?’ she asked, her blue eyes filling with tears.

‘It’s worse than that. I just can’t believe it!’

She looked back down at her plate as a tear fell and bounced off her fork.

‘Hey.’ Hawke pushed his chair back and walked around, standing beside her. ‘I don’t know what to say.’ He rested his hand on her shoulders and then pulled her up towards him and hugged her close. Their heads nuzzled in one another’s neck as they clung together, and both wept.

After a few minutes, Sacha pulled away and walked to the kitchen countertop to grab some tissues, offering a couple to Hawke.

‘It can’t just be a break, some space and time between us to prove our commitment,’ she said. ‘But a complete break-up.’

She cried again, and Hawke stepped forward to comfort her, but she raised her right hand to stop him.

He frowned with confusion. ‘Don’t you love me anymore?’ he asked.

Sacha shook her head and held her breath, pulling herself up straight. ‘Of course, I do Hawke. I love you with every cell in my body,’ she explained. ‘But we are siblings and cannot be lovers.’

‘Is that why you’ve not wanted to have sex with me recently?’ he asked.

‘Partly. I just need time to adjust to all of this. I can’t see a way forward. I don’t know what to do.’

‘Hey, Sacha. Think about it. I am only your half-brother. Surely that makes me different?’ he said, trying to apply some logic. ‘I am not Blake. I’m not a full-blooded brother. Don’t you see it? There must be a way for us. I can’t stop loving you. That’s impossible.’

They spent the next hour in the living room talking, hugging, crying, and laughing, and finally Sacha agreed.

‘Obviously, we would have to move away somewhere and live as a married couple then, and keep our relative genetics a complete secret,’ Hawke said.

Sacha smiled. ‘Yes, I see that could be a solution, and maybe we could adopt children?’

He shrugged his shoulders but countered, ‘let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. We need to put on a brave face and tell our parents that we accept the situation. Give ourselves some time to process all of this.’

‘Let’s face it. We’ve both had some scrapes in our teenage years. I remember when Maddy caught me with a joint that time.’ Sacha laughed.

‘Ha! We can survive anything.

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