Chapter 09

Me: How dare you? Out of my sight. And from now on pretend we never knew each other.

Yes, my father was almost obsessed with me marrying Nelson, but from there to ordering an assault on someone else's child, that was not possible. I knew my dad and he couldn't do that. My father was not a manipulator. I refused to believe it.

Lyam had had quite the nerve. Wanting to justify his betrayal by implicating my father and calling him a brigand was really petty. What need did he still have to want to justify himself after more than six months. Even after seeing my father beat...