Chapter3

Fox sat in the waiting room of the ER of Harmony Hospital waiting for the doctors to come out and tell him how Theresa was.

Alistair, Pilar, Angelica, and Martin rushed into the ER with Paloma, Luis, and Sheridan right behind them. "Fox! How is she?"

"They haven't told me anything yet," Fox said with a sigh.

"What happened?" Angelica asked.

"She slit her wrists. We should've seen this coming. The past few weeks have been rough for her," Fox said.

"If only I had known that she was my child, this would've been different," Alistair said.

Pilar and Martin turned to him at that moment. "She is our daughter!"

"No, Pilar, Martin, she is not!" came Katherine's voice at that moment. "She is Alistair's daughter with Angelica Minter. She was switched at birth with the true Theresa, who was stillborn."

"You knew?" Angelica asked. "You knew and yet you did not tell us!"

"I wanted to tell you for so long. I even tried to get the woman who switched Theresa and Therese to tell you, but she refused. That refusal was what caused her death on the staircase of the Crane Mansion," Katherine explained.

"Rachel caused us to lose our little girl for over 20 years?" Alistair asked.

"Yes. She was jealous of Angelica and how in love the two of you seemed to be. And she hated the fact that I was willing to give you a divorce so you could be with Angelica when I would not grant you one so you could marry her," Katherine explained.

"So you pushed Rachel down the stairs?" Angelica asked.

"Both Sheridan and I were trying to get her to go tell you the truth. We didn't realize we were at the staircase until it was too late. You know very well that Sheridan was looking forward to having a baby sister and when we told her she didn't survive, she was devastated," Katherine explained.

"How come I don't remember this?" Sheridan asked.

"You blocked it out. The fact that you had helped cause the death of your biological mother was a major trauma for you and it caused you to block it out. You even blocked out the fact that she was your mother," Katherine told her.

"So Theresa is actually Therese, my little sister?" Sheridan asked.

"Yes. The blood tests I did a few days ago confirmed it. She is Theresa Anastasia Crane, my youngest child," Alistair said.

"And our little girl is dead," Pilar said, bursting into tears.

"Damn Rachel! How dare she do this to us!" Martin exclaimed, cursing the woman who had stolen his child.

The doctor came out of the ER at that moment and they all turned to face him.

"How is she?" asked Pilar.

"She lost a lot of blood, but thanks to the blood that the Cranes keep on reserve, she will be fine. Right now, she is asleep and we'll be moving her to a room near the psychiatric ward. We feel she will need some help. Most suicide victims do," he said.

"Thank you, doctor. I just have one question. What name did my grandson give you for her?" Alistair asked.

"He told us her name was Therese Crane and that she is his aunt," The doctor said.

Alistair smiled at Fox. "Good. She doesn't know that she is my daughter yet. I will inform her once she awakens."

The doctor nodded at him before asking, "What should I address her as?"

"For now, address her as Miss Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald. That is the name she was raised with," Alistair said.

The doctor nodded and walked away.