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Chapter 2
Rei put the little boy to sleep, humming him a lullaby he himself didn't understand. Ofcourse, he did not know its words, but he did know the melody. The song was about a child-queen that had melted the ice heart of the dreaded snow witch. Sighing, Rei wondered to himself about the origins of the strange epic-like lullaby. Russian in nationality, it reminded him of Kai, which was the only reason why Rei used to hum it to his son. Rei knew that someday, he would have to come clean. Mariah deserved the truth. And so did his little boy. It was just that Rei could not bring himself to say it.
Mariah was washing the dishes and putting them away to dry up, when she heard footsteps behind her, footsteps she knew as well as the back of her hand.
" Rei, what is it ? It has something to do with Naka, isn't it. I am not blind. I saw you fidgeting the entire day. And those eyes …..they have never been so shifty. What is it that you are not telling me Rei ? I am your wife. I have a right to the truth; if for nothing else, then just so that I can help you with whatever it is that is troubling you. Please tell me Rei, what's wrong ? "
Rei was finding it hard to tell Mariah but he had decided now, and there was no going back on this
Flashback, 3 years ago
" Urgent call for Rei Kon, in the office please "
Rei looked up from his research papers and saw his assistant holding a message that urged him to take an urgent call.
"Its from Russia, Sir "
Rei froze. This had something to do with the strange gut feeling he had been experiencing for a while now. The gut feeling felt like a river of ice moving through him at that moment. He rushed out to take the call he knew he would come one day.
"Kai, is that you ? " Rei began abruptly.
There was a moment's silence on the other end before a thickly accented voice said in reasonably good English that it was calling from Kyovav Care Centre for homeless children, regarding a child who had been left at their doorstep with nothing on him but a piece of paper with what had turned out to be Rei's phone number written on it. Rei asked desperately if they knew anything about who the child was or who his parents were. The voice on the other end declined politely, even as he at once told them that he would be coming to take the child that very week.
Rei was distressed. The miscarriage Mariah had just suffered, had left her barren. She was in a state of shock and it was upto him to save his wife from certain death or imminent insanity. He wondered if this was God's way of miraculously telling him that even if they had rejected adoption as an option, they would still have a child who they would love, if not for themselves, then certainly for who the child almost certainly belonged to.
'Yes, that would be it', Rei had thought to himself. It had taken some doing but Rei had convinced Mariah that he wanted to adopt, even if she was against it. Mariah had been hurt and confused when Rei had left her alone for nearly 3 days. She had blamed herself and grieved over her husband's betrayal, not knowing it for what it really was. And soon enough, Rei turned up on the third day and took Mariah to meet Naka at Hitashi Day Care, where he had temporarily placed the child under a sister's care, warning them to keep quiet about Naka's orgins , to his wife. Mariah, to Rei's much needed relief had fallen in love with the little ball of warmth and love, the moment she saw the tiny one. They had christened him Nakagou, lovingly and thoughtfully, as any new parents would. Rei was happy and he knew he could never bring himself to tell Mariah the actual truth, simply because the one truth he saw, was Mariah's blooming motherhood and the joy it had brought into both their lives.
End Flashback
Mariah looked at Rei, stunned and teary eyed. She hadn't known for certain if it was Kai's child she was loving and raising, but she was almost sure now. What she didn't dare tell Rei, was that she had suspected something of this sort all along. Only, it had seemed unlikely to her, that her husband would ever be involved in Kai's matters. However, now her thoughts had been confirmed. Who else knew Rei even a little bit in Russia, let alone enough, to leave their child in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but a phone number that belonged to Rei. She said nothing. Rei felt her as he realized that she had understood and had perhaps been waiting to find out something like this. He was relieved because he knew, she would not give Naka up. He was still their child.
The question that hung in the air still, was a hard one though. Where was Kai, if he was alive at all ? And if he wasn't, then why, and was Nakagou truly an orphan, with regards to his biological parents ?
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