Leanne felt like she was suffocating.

"So you knew all along?"

She looked over at Mary with a dazed expression, the woman who, besides her parents, loved her the most in the world.

"You knew it was him who kidnapped us and killed my parents. Why didn't you tell the police? Why did you hide it when they came investigating?" Leanne's speech was slow, her voice soft, "Just because he's a Richardson. Does that mean he can take three lives and not be accountable?"

Her accusations cut deep into Mary's heart, "My dear child, I'm so sorry."

"Don't call me that!" Leanne suddenly became agitated, "I was never lucky enough to truly be one of the Richardson family. My only fortune was that my parents fought tooth and nail to get me out, or I would have been dead by his hand too."

Tears welled up in Mary's eyes. She asked, "Don't you see me as your Grandma now?"

Leanne's tears fell freely, her fingers clenched so tightly that her nails dug into her palms, just to keep her voice from trembling.

"I recognize you, but who recognizes my parents? For twenty years, their deaths have been a mystery, and you've shielded a murderer. How are you any different from him?"

The troubles Hanley caused at VectorVista, along with Charles' sudden death, added insult to injury.

Vector Vista Bank into the spotlight. Revealing the truth would not only tarnish the Richardson family's reputation but also plummet the public trust in VectorVista Bank to an

the cornerstone of a bank. Once

in turbulent times, the Richardson family could ill afford

to do with

wasn't for Leanne to

tears streaming down her cheeks. She

brought Leanne back to

and spent twenty years in seclusion, praying for redemption, but it did nothing to ease her

didn't look back at Mary filled with self-reproach and apologies. Desperate to escape,

tension, stood up and opened the window facing

reality of heat and dryness, rushed in, confronting

parents' caution and obstruction. They feared he'd become another

door, her pace quick, as if something

her eyes with the back of

wanted to step forward, to hold her

cries

"It's all your fault. Damn!

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