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?

almost

had been nothing but kind to her, treating her like her own daughter, and she would not stand for anyone causing

had initially left Mara and Huxley Boyd because she knew they were connected to

could track down Abigail, finding her exact whereabouts

been to deal with the Abernathy and Perez families

they had

Fine by her!

like they were asking

of silence, Percival sternly told

the phone

into

pulled up at the grand entrance of the Ellington

by two rows of neatly dressed servants waiting by the door, which

has been crying upstairs, threatening to divorce the sir!" the servant who had been attending to

was in

hoarse from crying, "Nathan, how could you do this to me? After all the years, the children we've raised together, and now Isolde, taking care

face

room just in time to hear Cecilia's lament, their expressions

daughter-in-law, Cecilia's grievances poured out like a flood,

happened. I woke up and found her next to me! I can't remember anything else!" Despite his protests, Cecilia refused to listen, her

Isolde finds out, I'll never

room, his gaze landing on Mara, who

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