CHAPTER 62–CONFRONTING HER FATHER-MERINA & ANDRE

“Merina. How can I know these things? You’re aware I cannot have you in the room for long, correct?” Andre knew he’d failed as a father to her for far too long. He didn’t know how to raise his daughter alone.

Andre struggled for years with grief for his first wife. He’d failed as the husband or father. Lillian said it didn’t matter. She’d been fine with him, gone often.

The reason he’d married her was to give Merina a female figure. Someone who understood her changing needs. Lillian twisted everything. Andre never suspected she’d fed him lies. From secret lovers, to using money earmarked for Merina’s welfare and future. Lillian lived with him as his wife while she sought her next husband. Now she wanted to empty his accounts and gain a controlling interest in his business. Lillian wanted to gut his financial portfolio even as she gutted him.

“Why is that? You didn’t want to hear me.” Merina sat there and watched her hands. Merina’s words penet