The other pages showed how she and Stephanie would ensure that Dominic got the Balyaev seat. She indeed planned on double-crossing Stephanie in that regard; the woman was vile. I picked up the last journal and read most of its content until I could not read it aloud anymore. Jenny had made several
~Sylvester~ I took the journal from Tamia and read the page she was on. I could not believe what I had just seen. "What if this woman was trying to frame my mother? The letter was anonymous. What if that was what she was trying to do? Jenny was on the council, and my mother wasn't. My father had l
I decided I wouldn't waste any time. Once we returned to the estate in the morning, I would ask my mother. I hope she tells the truth for all our sakes so I can figure out what to do. We had dinner, and everyone joked about the things they read in Jenny's journal. The woman believed my father love
"Answer me, mother," I said, and she wiped away her tears. "She was fucking him, Sylvester. I had no choice. They were working against me, all of them, against us," She said, and my knees gave out, and I fell on them with tears streaming down my eyes. Everything she told me was a lie. Everything I
~Sylvester~ I was speechless. My mother sat on the couch and was weeping. I could see she was afraid, and I understood why. She had committed treason. I sighed and looked at her. I could see she was tired and wondered how much she was hiding. "Is there anything else, mother, that I need to know?
So I pretended with her. The day she died, she came to my house to gloat. She told me she had me where she wanted and could dispose of me whenever. She only let me keep my miserable life because she enjoyed watching me suffer. She told me of her child with Maurice, and I pretended to be surprised a
"Your secret is safe with me, Luna. We will burn all the evidence and never speak of it again," Tamia assured her. I was glad Tamia was the one that found the evidence. I did not think Marcel or Theodore would want to hurt my mother, but their mothers might feel differently about it. I watched as T
~Tamia~ A week passed, and Sylvester and I did not mention what we knew. We did not even speak of it in private. We had utterly buried it, and Stephanie was grateful. Glenda and Dominic were at it again, and Sylvester was planning to move them to the house's east wing because they fought in the h