Chapter 50

“I told you how Amelia acts weird around Lucius and vice versa. They’re talking in his office right now, so I left my phone behind with the voice recorder on” I said, feeling proud.

Jenna didn’t share my enthusiasm about my brilliant plan. Quite the opposite.

“They’re still acting strange? Do you think they had an affair?”

I almost spat out my coffee. I looked at Jenna, disgust written all over my face. Lucius and Amelia? Together?

“What kind of affair?” I asked, pretending I didn’t understand what she meant.

“Well… your stepmother is very attractive and has kept herself in great shape for her age. And Lucius is a womanizer, as far as we know. Maybe they reconnected by chance, and that’s where the tension comes from. What else could it be?”

“No… that can’t be true.”

“Why not? Do you trust either of them to be ethical?”

The truth was, I didn’t. It wouldn’t be a shock if Amelia, being the witch that she was, had cheated on my father. I didn’t see her as decent enough not to have