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Appearing shocked, my stepdad put his hands to his face, while my mother railed on and one
"Christopher, stop cringing behind your hands Show your face, and recognize what you ht Bart was born--there with your pleading eyes telling h, and it would be you in the end on If you hadn't been there, pleading with those damned blue eyes, I wouldn't have let the doctors talkthe sterilization! I would have borne another child even if it did kill ave in--for your sake, damn it! For your sake!"
Sobbing, she fell to the floor and lay curled up on her side, her fingers working in the deep shag of the carpet Her long blonde hair spread like a golden fan on the carpet and cushioned her cheek as she cried on and on, berating hi
What were they doing?
She rolled onto her back, spreading her ar deeply wounded
"You're right, Christopher! You are always right! There's only been one tiht have saved Cory's life" Sobbing, she jerked her head away from Dad, who knelt beside her and tried to pull her into his easp
"You were right again when you told e turned out to be a hted when Julian sat back and allowed Yolanda Lange to destroy everything ned Everything happened just the way you predicted,you so happy Then Bart suffocated in the fire that burned Foxworth Hall to the ground Were you laughing inside then too?--glad to be rid of hiet about all I owed Paul? Did you doubt I loved Paul?" Her voice rose to a shrill shriek "When Paul and I were lovers I never thought of hie Perhaps I wouldn't have paid any attention to Aeda man twentyfive years older"
I shrank into a tighter ball Ashao now that I'd overheard sotiht opportunity--and here it was He recoiled from the viciousness of her attack
"Remember the afternoon I married Paul?" she yelled "Re he put on e you with a whisper And all the ti with your eyes I resisted you then, as I should have resisted you after he died Did you wish for him to die soon so that you'd have YOUR chance? A self-fulfilling wish, Christopher Doll! YOU WIN! YOU ALWAYS WIN! YOU SIT BACK AND WAIT WHILE YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN TO MESS UP MY LIFE! WELL, HERE I AM! RIGHT WHERE YOU WANTED ME!--in your bed, acting as your wife Are you enjoying yourself? ARE YOU?" She sobbed, then slapped his face hard
He reeled backward but didn't say a word
She hadn't finished with hione to Bart in the first place if you hadn't always been hanging around, co me ashamed of what Mamma had done to you, to me? I had to take Bart away from her then--it was the only way I could punish her for what she did to us And now, after all Paul did for us, you won't even have the decent generosity to take in a poor little girl ill soon be an orphan Even when I have paved the way legally so there won't be any investigation by the authorities Still you want et in the way of our privacy, and another childcards"
"Cathy, please" he moaned
She hit at hiain, "Perhaps you even told ht for Paul to have sex just so he would have another heart attack!"
Then she sank back, panting, tears streaking her face while her watery blue eyes stared up at Dad, but he only stayed still, hunkered down on his heels as if frozen by all she'd said
I wanted to cry, for hih I didn't understand nearly enough