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.

Joseph's parents pushed Vector Vista Bank into the spotlight. Revealing the truth would not only tarnish the Richardson

the cornerstone of a bank. Once that collapsed, so did an eighty-year

Richardson family could ill

what did these calculations and considerations have to do with an innocent girl who lost

wasn't for

tears streaming down her cheeks. She kept saying, "I'm so

had brought Leanne back

praying for redemption, but it

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

tension, stood up and opened

with the reality of heat and dryness, rushed in, confronting the perennial and

he understood his parents' caution and obstruction. They

her pace quick, as if

her eyes with the back of her hand,

to hold her and comfort her. He stopped himself

cries filled

"It's all your fault. Damn!

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