Chapter 4
Veronica could not believe that she was reading what she was. This was a major breach in her privacy. How could her father have been keeping all of this from her?
He had know that she had went to that party, how she wasn't yet sure. He had already known what had happen. He had even known that it was Duncan who had done it.
The man she thought was her father had been lying all along to her. He wasn't her father; there was a paternity test to prove it. She was Jake Kane's bastard child.
She wiped the tears from her eyes so that she could see. She had been dating her brother that was so sick. Even sicker, she was carrying her brothers baby.
The test could be wrong, but her father had had it done at one of the best places in town. If it was wrong then she would eat her foot.
Had Duncan knew? Then it hit her. Of course he had known. She had almost forgotten the whole breaking up thing. He said that it was wrong. He knew that she was sister, probably even when he had sex with her.
Then another question struck her. How had Duncan known about her father's heart disease? He hadn't even told his daughter yet. That meant that he had to of talked to Duncan that day.
She made a promise to herself that she would find out why. She slipped both the Lily Kane file and her own in her purse, and left Mars Investigations, much sadder then when she had came in.
All this time, she had thought she had killed her father, but it was really his own fault. If he had told her about her mother's infidelity she would never have dated Duncan. She would never be pregnant.
The thought of her baring her brother's baby was what had caused her father's heart attack. He deserved it, she thought bitterly.
Veronica was standing at Duncan's door, and was about to knock, when the door flew open on its own accord. Duncan stood in the doorway.
"Hey brother," she greeted bitterly.
Duncan looked ready to slam the door in her face, but she deserved an explanation. He owed that to her, with the news that he had now.
"So you found out." he muttered darkly. There was a tiny bit of guilt in his voice.
"Yeah, I found out. You know, I didn't believe the rumors, but you are a stud, Duncan. I mean you got your sister pregnant, while she was drugged. Double score."
Duncan just stared at, that guilty look frozen on his face. He also looked a little scared.
"So, Duncan, did you know that I was your sister, when you made love," she put air bunnies around this, "Or fucked me, or what ever you kids are calling it this days.
"Yes, I did, Veronica. But it isn't how you made it sound. I didn't what to do, I mean I wasn't sure then, but I had a clue."
That wasn't the right answer. Veronica's face turned the color of a fresh tomato, as she began speaking again, each word drenched in anger.
"So, you told my father, and he had the test done. Does your, I mean, or," air bunnies again, "dad even know? How did you found out anyway?"
"I heard my mother and father arguing, and heard your mother's name. Apparently my mother knew about there little affair. It was around the time that we were both born. I went to your dad, I figured he had a right to know."
Veronica couldn't find anything to attack in that statement, which pissed her off even more. He sounded like the good guy, which would make her the bad guy.
"So, you and my father were having secret meetings behind my back. Why didn't you tell him about my pregnancy, you had time?"
"I figured that was for you to tell him, if you even decided to keep the baby."
"What? Of course I'm keeping my baby. You're not getting off that easily."
He gave her that sad, abused boy look, and the sad thing is that she almost fell forward. She needed to get away, before she did fall for it. She took off, walking, but then turned around.
"Oh, and next time, Duncan," she said almost sweetly, "Don't touch me when I'm sleeping."
There she had squeezed in her witticism of the day. She could sleep tonight.
"Wait, Veronica," he chased her down his own driveway. "I need to tell you something."
"What," she shouted, perfectly aware that she was making a scene.
"My parents want us to do a paternity test. They think that you may be trying to trap me, and that it's not my baby."
"Duncan, I'm not a slut, no matter what people may say. You were my first and last time."
"That's what I said, Veronica. I know you aren't a slut or anything like that. No matter how far apart, or close we are, I will always love you."
She couldn't find the right words to say. How do you tell your brother, or half brother, that you love him, in a very unbrotherly way? If only we were just cousins, she joked in her mind.
There were tears in Duncan's eyes, and she suddenly forgot all about his lies, and wrongs. She just wanted to hold him, like she used to. Before Lily had died, and everything had changed.
Before she knew what was happening, Duncan was hugging her. She tried to shrug him off.
"Duncan, this isn't right, you're my brother. We can't love each other like this."
He let her go, knowing that she was right. Tears were still running from his eyes.
"Tell your mom I'll take the test. I have no fear."
Then, Veronica turned to leave. She had a meeting with Wallace tonight, and she couldn't be late. That had a lot to talk about.