Cecilia was on the phone, her voice cracking through sobs of despair.
Percival frowned deeply, "What in the world is going on?"
"Your dad, I caught him cheating!" Cecilia's voice was almost a shout, overwhelmed by the shock of what she had witnessed.
Percival paused, not quite comprehending, "What did you say?"
His dad caught cheating?
That had to be a joke.
Everyone who knew Nathan was aware of his devotion to his wife.
Cecilia had been the apple of Nathan's eye for years, never wanting for anything.
And now she was talking about catching him cheating?
Percival thought it sounded like a bad punchline.
"Your dad and Mara Boyd..." Cecilia couldn't finish, breaking down into tears again.
Percival's expression darkened.
Mara?
had almost forgotten
to her, treating her like her own daughter, and
and Huxley Boyd because she knew they were connected
down Abigail, finding her exact whereabouts was another challenge, given her elusive
been to deal with the Abernathy and Perez families first, then use Huxley
they had made the
Fine by her!
like they were asking
silence, Percival sternly told Cecilia,
hung up the phone without
drive turned into a twenty-minute
pulled up at the grand entrance
of neatly dressed servants waiting by
finally here. The lady has been crying upstairs, threatening to divorce the sir!" the servant
in the
this to me? After all the years, the children we've raised together, and now Isolde, taking care of this family while
can't face
room just in time to hear Cecilia's
poured out like a flood, "Percival,
clad in his robe, "I don't know what happened. I woke up and found her next to me! I can't remember anything else!" Despite his protests, Cecilia
out, I'll never forgive
surveyed the room, his gaze landing on Mara,
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