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Mr. and Mrs. Abernathy retired to their quarters, where Thaddeus divulged everything he knew about Edith and Glynnis to Evadne.

He could have easily kept it all to himself and dealt with the matter in private.

But that was no longer an option for him–under the thumb of his wife, he knew that omission equaled treason in her eyes. To incur her wrath was a fate he dared not tempt.

A woman like Evadne was not easily placated, and the thought of enduring weeks without her touch was a

torment too bitter to bear.

Evadne listened in silence, with her striking eyes narrowing and a dangerous glint flickering within that sent shivers down one’s spine.

“So it seemed that’s why Marilla endured such torment; her own sister Glynnis played a pivotal role in her suffering,” she mused coldly.

In the next moment, with her anger manifesting, she clenched a teacup and, with a sharp snap, hurled it to the ground and shattered it to pieces!

Winced at the sound, Thaddeus quickly took her hand to inspect for any cuts and gently soothed her within his larger palm. “Evadne, anger is a poison. It’s not worth hurting yourself over such trash,” he soothed.

hands with Glynnis,” he muttered under his breath, with his tone turning

different? When Elspeth went to great lengths with her schemes during her pregnancy, surely Mr. Frederic demanded a paternity test? Is she truly an

darkened as he replied softly, “A paternity test was done back then. It confirmed

tests by buying off the doctors. If Elspeth could hide a murder for twenty years, what’s a paternity

racing; it was spinning tales darker and deeper with each

slipped under the collar of her blouse, caressing the soft skin at the nape of her neck, which was a silent solace for his troubled thoughts.

did he consider her fears as

his own mind, but with so much at stake,

with the Fairhaven group in framing Marilla,” he said, wrapping his arm around her slender waist and tracing the curve of her body with his hand. “My dear, do you

protection. The more she celebrates, the faster she’ll

smile

plan that’ll hurt her without

about the Abernathy group. I’ve got our backs,” Thaddeus said, his eyes burning with

same fate as the Chambers Group. And it’s not just about you–it’s about Grandfather’s legacy. Despite everything, she is his granddaughter, and even if his heart has turned cold towards her, we must consider how

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like any old family, valued blood ties, and with Grandfather Hamilton’s age and recent stress over Marilla’s

echoing in her eyes, full of dark promises. “Right now, she believes she’s won a great victory and is probably on

your enemy made all the difference; just as Evadne had predicted Avery’s hasty actions against Byron

continued her hedonistic ways, flitting from one party to the next, drowning in alcohol, and using her sister’s suffering as fodder for

family member was her way of venting long–suppressed rage.

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