Not A Small-Town Girl

"I’ve got a video I fixed up for you to watch."

Danielle pulled out her phone and projected the footage she had managed to recover earlier that day.

Outside the study, Audrey was pressing her ear to the door, trying to catch every word. But the thick walls made it impossible to hear anything.

She thought, ’What secret is Danielle about to reveal? Why does she need to bring Mom and Dad and Joseph into the study to talk about it privately?

’Is she talking behind my back? Badmouthing me? Of course, that made sense-Danielle is from a small village, so it isn’t surprising that she is so petty.’

Inside the study, the three of them watched the video in shocked silence. Joseph’s face darkened, his anger practically radiating from him as if he wanted to rip everything apart.

along, she’d been lying to him. If it weren’t for Danielle finding and restoring this video, he might have ended

guilt he’d carried for years- feeling pressured by Sienna’s constant

lifted off his

small figure in the video

stunned. They hadn’t understood why Joseph had suddenly been with Sienna, but now everything was

who is this woman?" Joseph’s voice cut

without a trace. That same year, Robert brought home a new woman- Emily, Sienna’s

working as a waitress at a hotel. Then, about

was so tragic. Her mother was from a good family, but