"If someone asks me that, I won't care or won't even bother to answer them. But you are my own daughter, why do you ask the same thing? Kevin's ex-wife killed herself with depression. I met Kevin after his ex-wife died. Those people are envious and jealous of me, accused me as a third party. Who knows the pain in my heart?"

Veronica Parker thought. 'Is that so? Then I can't blame my mother.'

She is well aware of the knock-on effect of gossip. She experienced it personally and knew how very stressful it is.

"Even without me, there would be other women. At that time, Kevin was in his...