HE MOCKED MY MILITARY UNIFORM AND CALLED ME A CHARITY CASE—THEN A DNA TEST EXPOSED THE $450,000 HE STOLE FROM MY FAMILY.
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Chapter 10 - CLARA TELLS THE REST
Arthur had focused on the locket.
Clara cared about something else.
“She said I was a guest.”
Arthur sat beside her.
“In your own house?”
Clara nodded.
“She says things change when you marry her.”
“What things?”
“My room.”
Arthur froze.
“What about it?”
“She wants it for a dressing room.”
Seraphina had proposed converting part of the children’s wing.
Arthur had rejected it.
Clara continued:
“She says Elena makes us spoiled.”
“Did she hurt you?”
Clara shook her head.
No invented violence.
But:
“She takes my books when I don’t listen.”
“And Lily?”
“She tells Lily not to bother you.”
Arthur understood then.
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Seraphina was not only trying to reorganize valuables.
She was trying to reorganize who belonged.
