Frank quietly said: "I know you, Helen. You avoid looking into my eyes when you lie."

"Don't act like you know me. You don't—and I'll be very clear." Helen smiled. "I'm different now. A person should be realistic and give up on pointless ambition. What's life for a woman, if not to find a man she could depend on and serve? Why deal with all the problems in a corner and shareholders instead of being a housewife? It's an easy life and good for everyone."

"Is that what you really think?" Frank asked, looking searchingly into Helen's eyes.

"It is." Helen met his gaze without flinching this time. "It doesn't matter what you think or how highly you think of yourself—I'm not leaving with you, so just give up. It's getting late and I'm tired... It's time you leave."

With those words, Helen quietly returned tinside Lane Manor, and Gina immediately leapt up to chase off Frank again. "What are you spacing out for?! Helen told you to leave, you delusional fool! Who do you think you are?!"

Frank simply craned his neck and shouted into Lane Manor again, "Get over yourself, Helen. Don't think you've saved me! I'm telling you right now—I'll never thank you. No, I'd hate you for it! Call me names, insult me all you like. I'll never let you marry Chaz Graves, you hear me?!"

a brick and smashing it on Frank's head. "I-If you stray

oblivious to Gina's insults even as he bled from his head and drove away

time, Helen returned to her room, pressing her back against the door once she

folding her arms before her chest just

so crazy? Was she

how her own family had abused Frank for three years.

to do now—how would she face him

picked up his

can I help?" Hans

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