Chapter 143

IANNA

The way my father looked at her gave me chills. She looked so pitiful, and I could not help but feel sorry for her. I believed she didn’t do it because she hated the man, but because she was afraid of losing everything.

The way she went about it wasn’t ideal, but it happened. It’s in the past and I think she has made up for it a thousand folds. She has been loyal since then and has made it her mission to free my father.

If she didn’t want him to be free, then he wouldn’t have been freed. She would have kept his whereabouts and continue to let me believe that he was dead. But she didn’t, she told me all about him and even helped to rescue him.

Those were not the actions of a vindictive woman but those of someone who cared. “Father, please, you must forgive her. I am not saying that what she did is okay because it’s not. But we can’t move on like this.”

My father looked at me without saying a word. “I know she hurt you, the betrayal is painful. You trusted her and she broke that t