When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 57

“It’s exactly as you see,” he said, his voice tinged with a blend of sorrow and weariness. “We, the Ferguson family, failed Alice. It was my failure to discipline my own son!”

Yeah, Alice was my late mother-in-law. Hearing this, I was plunged into deep shock.

I had always thought she died from complications during childbirth.

But she didn’t. She was pushed down the stairs when she was nine months pregnant.

And the person who did it? It was Teresa, the very woman who had been like a second. mother to Bryant, making herself a martyr to save him, only to end up in a vegetative State

My mind was a mess.

How could she show such kindness to Bryant, yet be the one who killed his birth mother? It defied all human logic…

Before I could sort through my thoughts, Timothy continued, “Can’t figure out why she could be so kind to Bryant, huh?”

“Yes…”

He scoffed, “Nothing but self-interest and calculation.”

“After the death of Bryant’s mother, my bewildered son insisted on marrying Teresa into the family. Teresa had tampered with the surveillance before acting, thinking she had covered her tracks. She played all her cards -crying, making scenes, even threatening to hang herself-pressuring me to give in.”

me. “You managed to restore the surveillance footage?”

“Yes.”

palpable as he spoke through clenched teeth, “But my son was so bewitched, even with the evidence right before

of rage, Timothy hurled his teacup

me realize just how furious he must have been at

up, Gary quickly patted his back and took over the

to let Teresa into the family. But there were conditions. One, a prenuptial agreement stating that the

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nothing to

wellbeing. Otherwise, all the

Premeditated murder.

be enough to put Teresa away

a chill listening to

depth of animosity and

remembered was merely a façade put up after

asked, “Does Bryant

bear

back,

there was more to it

Timothy, I too felt a pang

lose his mother so young, and to realize the stepmother he was so grateful to might have never truly cared

And what about Margaret?