Chapter 24 - Diana's Secret

J noticed the tall guy's eyes twitched as he was looking at Diana and the little guy. She immediately interrupted the mother and son. "Hey, Timothy! Let' get inside, I have a gift for you."

J took Timothy on her arms and walk towards the house. Before she entered the house. She looked back at Diana and the tall guy. Diana was saying something but the tall guy is looking at them. Well, he is actually looking at Timothy.

A couple of minutes past. J and Timothy were sitting on the sofa and checking out on the new toy that J gave him. When finally, the door opened and Diana entered the house.

"Hey, there little buddy! How's your day?" Diana approached Timothy and gave him a hug. "Let me help you with this." J stood up and took the paper bag with her in the kitchen.

J meet Diana five years ago. She used to be her grandfather's private nurse. Although J personally took care of her grandfather when she arrived from abroad, she still asked Diana to stay and help her.

Although Lance is her best friend since childhood. Diana became her female best friend as well. J never got close to anyone since she was a kid except for Lance and Diana.

Four years ago, Diana got pregnant. She never confides it to anyone except J. Due to her plea, J never told anyone and help Diana keep her pregnancy. Diana also told her who the father of the child was, but never want to tell him about it because she knows that he wouldn't want that child. Diana kept the child because she wanted it too although she is angry and afraid of the father of the child. The child was conceived accidentally. She was drunk at that time. When she gave birth to a baby boy she named it Timothy. She hired a nanny to help her take care of the child while she returned to work at the hospital.

Diana fully trusted J with that secrets and that makes her guilty. Because even thou J trust, Diana, she cannot tell her about her marriage.

Later on, Diana entered the kitchen and Timothy was left to his nanny. She helped J took out the groceries in the paper bag and started preparing to cook. They loved cooking together. Back at Lodgepole Estate, cooking was one of the things that they enjoyed doing together.

J looked at her and asked, "Aren't you going to tell Timothy's father about him?" Diana continues cooking and said "No" in a cold tone opposite to her lively personality.

"Diana, sooner or later Timothy will ask you. Have you prepared an answer when the time comes?" J said imploring.

Diana stopped for a while then said. "I'll tell him that he's dead. It is better than introducing him to his father and face his rejection."

J was speechless and helplessly looked at Diana.

Diana finished cooking and they started a simple celebration. She doesn't have any relatives in the city although she has a lot of friends she chooses to invite only her best friend J, so it was only the three of them and the nanny that celebrated Timothy's third birthday.

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"Leo." he was startled when he heard a voice call his name. He almost forgot that there was a lady in the backseat. "Is everything alright?" the lady asked him.

"Y-yes madam," he said then he started the car engine. While driving the face of Diana and her son keeps flashing in his mind. He tightened his grip to the steering wheel. Damnit!