Chapter 20

                                    

                                          
Miranda and I stormed through the mansion in fury. 
                          
"Back so soon" Chace smiled as we entered the kitchen. 
                          
"Where is he?" I screamed. 
                          
My aim was to find Uncle Jason and that's it - Nothing else mattered in that moment. 
                          
"Zac, Lila and Chris are in Coney island" Chace answered. 
                          
"No, Uncle Jason" Miranda corrected calmly. 
                          
I wanted to kill him.
                          
"What's going on kid?" Aunt Kat asked, entering the room with uncle Nate, John and dad.
                          
Aunt Kat had to have know. I bet everyone did apart from dad and I. 
                          
"Did you know about this?" I cried, passing them the letter before throwing them my backpack that was filled with all the money. 
                          
They furrowed their brows at me, taking the letter
                          
"Oh my" aunt Kat gasped.
                          
"Chace" said uncle Jason, entering the kitchen, "I fixed the lawn mower"
                          
"What the fuck is this?" I yelled, snatching the letter from aunt Kat's grasp then pressing it against Uncle Jason's chest. 
                          
Uncle Jason took the letter quickly and glances at it. I could see the terror in his eyes that disappears after a second.
                          
"Guess who found the missing St Peter's Painting" Miranda folded her arms. 
                          
"Oh that letter" he then said casually, "I wrote that when she told us she was pregnant", we all look at him "what's the big deal?"
                          
He acted as though the letter was perfectly innocent, despite obviously knowing that it wasn't at all. 
                          
"You gave my wife six hundred thousand!" Dad screamed, glaring at the backpack.
                          
"It was perfectly innocent" he reinforced. 
                          
"Bullshit!" I exclaimed, "how can you think that you're going to get away with this?"
                          
"Get away with what?" Uncle Jason half smiled, "what have I done?"
                          
He shot me a look that screamed he knew exactly what he's doing. He was almost smirking at the victory that he was foreseeing.
                          
"You gave away six hundred thousand dollars to Paige!" Aunt Kat screamed at him. "You said Marco took the money from you" 
                          
"Its no big deal-" uncle Jason shook his head. 
                          
"That's enough!" Uncle Nate screamed at the top of his lungs 
                          
Uncle Nate's jaw was locked into place in anguish, his eyes bulging out of their sockets. No one ever wanted to be on the receiving end of that look. 
                          
Uncle Nate didn't name his son Jason after uncle Jason, Jason was named after his deceased wife (Jaisyn), who died in labour with her fraternal triplets: Michael, Ethan, and Jason. Uncle Nate actually never liked uncle Jason. Like the rest of us, Uncle Nate thought Uncle Jason was an arrogant piece of shit. 
                          
"Alright" Uncle Jason nodded slowly, beads of sweat forming on his forehead. "Me and Paige knew each other before she met Daniel"
                          
We all fall silent. 
                          
"How?" John was the first to speak. 
                          
"Jess was hanging out with her and a few other kids at the park" he began to explain "Nothing happened cause she was a minor and I was twenty at the time....a year later she was dating Danny-"
                          
"You two had an affair?" Dad interrupted in fury. 
                          
"No" uncle Jason shook his head, "...on the day of your wedding, she was going to leave you at the alter, did you know that?" He smirked at my father.