"Go ahead Mom. Tell Dad the truth."

Eve's hands covered her face. "Whitney don't do this please," she begged.

"You did this Mom, not me. Tell him the truth now, or I will."
 

"Honey, what the hell is going on? I want to know right now," T.C. exclaimed loudly.

Liz watched happily as her sister's world was going to coming crashing down all around her. T.C. would be crushed, but she would happily pick up the pieces.

"Well Evie, we're waiting. What do you have to tell us?" Liz said with a smile as Eve glared at her angrily. Liz would be enjoying this. It would give her the perfect oppourtunity to finally have T.C.

Eve was tired, she was tired of all the secrets and the lies she has told to keep her past hidden. She knew her family would be ruined but she couldn't keep it to herself any longer; Whitney would see to it that she didn't.

"I'm not the woman you all thought I was. T.C you've made me out to be this perfect person, but no one is. Everyone makes their mistakes and I have too. When I met you I was fixing those mistakes in my life and I couldn't tell you the things I've been through because I knew you would never accept it.

I wasn't always a doctor and you weren't the only man in my life." , she said looking at T.C.

"What are you saying Eve? Who was the other man?"

"Yeah Mom.  I thought Daddy was the only man you ever loved," Simone said bewildered while Whitney stood watching her mother with cold eyes.

"No there was just one other and I loved him very much. You see I used to be a singer at a nightclub after I left home at a young age.I was young and I was wild and I loved to sing, I guess that's where Whitney got it from. But nightclubs weren't the best places for young girls back then. It was dangerous a lot of drugs, alchohol and men and I wasn't immune to most of those. I messed with some small drugs at first. A joint, here and there, and then came the liquor, but I would never give up myself no matter what ,but the money was thin and I had no place to turn until I met this man and he turned my whole life around.

At that time it wasn't acceptable us being together. Him being white and all but he had a good heart at that time and he made me laugh and he had money. He used to lavish me with these gifts and these trips to Bermuda and all sorts of places and we fell in love despite our differences. We were going to get married and have a family or so I thought," The tears were flowing freely now and everyone including Whitney looked at Eve shocked by the events that took place in her young life.

"How could you not tell me this, how could you keep this from me, I mea--," T.C. started shaking his head in disbelief.

"Please let me finish, I need to finish or I might never have the strength to do this. I found out I was pregnant and I was so happy, I rushed to tell him, which turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life.

He changed his tune then, he couldn't marry me he said, he didn't love me, I was just his plaything and that's all it was. You don't know how much I cried. I was carrying his child; our child that I thought was made out of love but it was all I lie. So he gave me hush money.  lot of money to keep quiet and never reveal the paternity of my baby. I vowed never to fall in love again.

I took it. I needed to get away from the destructive life I led. I wanted to be successful for my child. So I put the money into going to college. I was going to become a doctor and I would be both mother and father to my baby. It was hard but I brought my baby to term and everything was going to be fine until the doctor told me my baby was dead and that I couldn't hold him or see him again and it killed me.

I threw myself into my studies, I busted my ass to get to the top of my class and finish college ahead of time. Medical school was a breeze and in between that time I met you and you were healing from your accident. You were so angry and so bitter and you were convinced that Julian had something to do with it. I couldn't tell you the truth.

I was your Florence Nightingale and you made me happy made me believe that I was a good person and I felt myself falling in love again. But you didn't know about my past and I like that. So I became the perfect woman and the perfect wife and the good Dr. of Harmony, but it was all a lie.

Holding those secrets killed me for years but I didn't want my past mistakes to ruin the family I made with you, then I found out it was all a lie, my baby never died they took him away from me because the father of the man I loved didn't want the world to know that the heir to his throne would be half black. He made his son push me away for fear of disinheritance. He set it all up because I was black and he was white. He ruined my life and his by forcing him to marry a woman he didn't love while he took away my baby. But what could we do about it when we found out the child we both thought was gone so long ago was still alive and adopted into a family.

He had his life now and I had mine how were we going to explain a child we had together. His father is so powerful he would never let us find our child so we kept more secrets and we found that after all these years there was this question still left unanswered and there were these feelings left that we couldn't deny them no matter how wrong it was." Eve shrugged her shoulders and gave a tiny laugh.

"We both knew that if you found out you would kill him and our marriage would be over and the girls, my girls would never forgive me, but you never forget your first love and he was mine and we got caught by my daughter so there's no turning back now."

Whitney had tears in her eyes she couldn't believe the things her mother was saying; she and Julian had a child. She looked at her mother and for the first time realized she didn't really know her at all, she had been through hell and she rose above it, but she couldn't forgive all those lies.

"Who is it Eve? Who is the man you've been fornicating with behind my back? The man you have loved for all these years?" T.C. spat out angrily.

"It's Julian.  Julian is the man I loved and still love to this day." Simone's mouth widened with shock as Liz clapped her hand happily.

"You've done it now Evie and T.C's all mine"