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Chapter 23

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Chapter 23

Sharon Sandoval’s POV

I had known that the past might come back to haunt us but I had not cared to think that it might be so soon, I had thought I would have become a wrinkly old woman before it happened but it seemed that having a child who was way too smart for her own good was not a very good thing.

I wondered why she could not just accept her life as it was, she should have enjoyed everything I worked hard for her to become but no, she just had to go digging into things that could only bring problems for everyone else around her.

I massaged my temples feeling the beginnings of a headache coming on, this was supposed to be a relaxing vacation for me but I ended up finding myself in a myriad of family drama.

My troubled thoughts were disturbed by foot steps, I raised my head to look at the owner of the footsteps and it was Ethan, my son in law, he had a troubled look on his face, looking at him now, who would have ever believed that he could turn out like this, he looked
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