Chapter 109 Getting it Back

(Sarah)

“Have you no self respect?” he had asked me.

I could not believe that Thomas could ever say such a thing. All my life, I had loved him. Thomas and I had been friends ever since I was a young girl. My parents had shipped me off to Denver to live with my Aunt Clara when I was fifteen and I had gone to school with Thomas and Jack.

But our families had known each other since long before that. My parents had known Thomas’s parents and had been good friends with his father while he was alive.

They had always doted on Thomas. And I could see the appeal. What I did not understand was why both of my parents loved my brother, William, so much more than me.

I had flown home after I graduated from high school and barged into my father’s study one time.

“How come William doesn’t even have to go to boarding school while I have to live all the way apart from you and Mother in another state?!” I had demanded.

My father had put down his cigar and slowly risen from his chair. He had walked up t