Rosalynn bit her lip and explained, “She’s got it wrong. She thinks I’m tainted and I’ll be the ruin of Brian.”

Gail let out a deep sigh after a moment’s reflection.

“Noemi’s a close friend of mine. Her behavior might stem from her own marital woes.”

She paused before continuing, “I suppose I can see where she’s coming from. Her overprotectiveness towards Brian probably comes from a place of guilt. You’re aware that Brian was once poisoned, so she’s always on edge.”

Rosalynn remained quiet.

She could sympathize with Noemi’s instinct to protect her son, but not with the actions it spurred.

Regardless, she knew harming others to fulfill one’s objectives was unjust.

Gail noted Rosalynn’s silence and questioned her, a hint of a smile in her

incensed at that moment. There

brought it up,

she held back, Barlow would have taken it upon

intervened, the situation could

to give

and chose to seek understanding rather than

two must have butted heads over this, didn’t you?”

a tight line as she

“You appear serene, yet there’s

really akin

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