CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

With her face buried in her own hands, Marjorie sniffled. “I'm sorry that I couldn't say anything and also lacked the courage to back then. That night, I was attending a banquet and had a little too much to drink, so I went out to the backyard to clear my head. That was when I overheard the conversation between Mrs. Graham and Jacqueline.”

“Please continue, Mrs. Larson,” Natalie said in an encouraging tone as she held Shane's hand.

Marjorie nodded. “Since you came all the way here, I will. I've always known that someone will come asking eventually, so I'm going to tell you everything. That night, I heard Mrs. Graham press Jacqueline for her reasons for harming Mr. and Mrs. Graham. The girl stated that it was because Mrs. Graham found out about her true nature and wanted to disown her as her god-daughter. That was what motivated Jacqueline to act against them.”

“I see,” said Natalie as she bit her lip.

So Jacqueline had Shane's mother killed because she uncovered what Jacqueline was really like. To think that such a monstrous person has survived till now.

With his fists clenched, Shane's body shivered in a murderous rage, for he had never expected this to be Jacqueline's justification for killing his parents.

Have they not treated her well enough?

have someone care for

should have taken her off life support when she got into the traffic accident and rued being the one who brought his own

him feel that he had

she sensed the mood he was in. “Let's try to stay calm for now, Shane. Shall we hear Mrs.

back some of Shane's

and closed his eyes before he forced himself to settle

stunned when I heard this. How could a ten-year-old girl be so vicious as to go as far

something to her own

“Yes. Mrs. Graham might have realized the gravity of her own daughter's crime and was prepared to have her turn herself in. What I would never have expected was for Jacqueline to threaten to kill herself if Mrs. Graham forcibly took her to the police and cause the Grahams to lose

hold her breath, and

parents to

she decided to drug them and make them impotent, making her the only child they would ever have for the rest of their lives. That was what made Mrs. Graham forgo the idea of making Jacqueline turn herself