Chapter 296. Try Again

“You know how Uncle Simon is Somtochukwu and Anthony’s dad?” Marissa asked.

Emma nodded, knuckling his eyes as he looked up at his mum and dad.

“And your friend’s dad too?”

Emma nodded again.

“Yes, this is how this man is to you,” Marissa said uneasily.

Emmanuel Christopher Maduka at the age of six looked at the image his mother was showing him on her phone. He looked over at his mum who was looking at him with anxiety then he looked at Bernard as he pointed “But you are my dad”

Bernard sighed as he wondered how can one possibly break this to a kid without making him feel unwanted “Yes, I am and I love you but this man you see here? Ehn ehn just like your mum there” he pointed at Evelyn’s portrait close to Emma’s bed “He is your birth father”

Emma thought back to what his mother had said about his birth mother and he scrunched up his face as he asked “I was also in his belly?”

Marissa let out a nervous laugh as she lifted him