Chapter 9

Aunt Yvonne and Uncle Gordon divorced. As compensation, Uncle Gordon left with nothing.

Aunt Yvonne dealt with his mistress and her family by sending them to work in a remote factory.

She did not do anything to Suzanne. She said she would leave her to me.

But I didn't know what to do.

When I had carved letters onto Suzanne's face, she had struggled and said I was heartless.

Maybe I had always been heartless. How could I have done what I did to my Sophie if I wasn't?

The investigator told me that they had found Suzanne's old high school classmates. Suzanne had been expelled not because of Sophie, but because the school had caught her having indecent relations with her own stepfather.

She said that she had only done it to survive.

I was disgusted.

Sophie had hit her head in the fall and was still unconscious.

I spent my days by her side, taking care of her personally.

I even found a cosmetic surgeon to get rid of the scar on her forehead. The surgeon had given me a strange lo