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.

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

he watched, all the guilt he’d carried for years- feeling pressured by Sienna’s constant moral guilt trips-began to make sense. It had

lifted off his shoulders. It wasn’t Sienna who had been manipulating

sight of the small figure in the video almost made him

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

voice cut through the silence, cold and

of the Dixon family. After her mother became seriously ill, Ruby disappeared without a trace. That same year, Robert brought home a new woman- Emily, Sienna’s biological mother-and a girl about

worse than the servants, which is why someone from the Dixon family ended up working as a waitress at a hotel. Then, about four years ago, she met Joseph...

her expression full of sympathy. "I’ve heard of Ruby, the eldest daughter of the Dixon family. Her life was so tragic. Her mother was from a good family, but when