"Damien, it's not like that---"
"Get out of the room now, Damien," the matriarch had firmly told him and looked serious at how he looked at her. She could feel something in her throat. She remembered the good thing that they had been together and it was not easy to just forget everything about that.
She tried to run away because he tried to force it on her, and his nightmare of her knowing had happened, so he would do whatever it takes to remove it from her memory. He always wanted Adelaide to think that he was a man... a hero. Not a crazy, obsessive psycho. And that Joaquin is their own child.
But she knows.
He doesn't like Jacques.
She clenched her fist as she looked at his back and walked away.
"You don't have to worry about it, Adelaide," and the matriarch held her hand, "You are
