Chapter Ninety-one ~Lisa's Tale —How It All Began (IV)~

Jasper

This was getting intriguing. But since people's lives were affected, I'd prefer to use the word eerie because there was this strange atmosphere as Mrs Grimwood spoke about how the man she later remarried became her and Lisa's doom.

The hall was so silent that if anything as light as a piece of paper had dropped, it would have been heard.

Mrs Grimwood began. "The day Lisa turned thirteen she came to meet me telling me her stepfather who I had married was doing some weird things to her. We were only six months into our marriage. I asked her what things and she started describing how he touched her body and how he kissed her. For a minute I couldn't breathe. And I did the most simple and most cowardly thing ever. I ignored her."

Mrs Grimwood began to cry again. A box of tissues was placed right next to her.

Alpha Howl asked, "Why did you ignore her?"

"Because I thought she was conjuring up things again. The doctor had told me that her disease would prevent her from having insi