Chapter 52 Unlikely Allies

(Alex’s POV)

“What?” Willa asked again, giving me the same kind of look that one would give a disgusting insect.

To think that my parents had hoped to arrange a marriage between me and that woman after John and Sybil got married. Yeah, right. The only way that could ever possibly happen would be over my dead body!

We had both recently returned from England, where I had been responsible for the family business and she had been playing at being an actress. We happened to have a few mutual friends over there, so we were sometimes forced to see each other whenever there was a get-together. Our friends weren’t aware that we knew each other, though, and we preferred to keep it that way.

I was never able to stomach her, and I knew that the feeling was mutual.

Once, when we were kids, I tried to reason with her, because I didn’t like the way she was treating Sybil. It would range from insults to physical violence. I had even heard her openly threatening Sybil at times. I told Willa to stop do