mom pov;
Tarim`s death broke me into a million pieces, and what angered me was that his final words was to look after his children and emphasizing on his daughter Melinda, he never cared about me in any situation, he would look at my face whenever i was with Melinda but not when i was alone, life changed when i gave birth to that brat of a favorite girl she loved so much more than me, he didn't even glance at Simon when i gave birth to him, all that he cared about was the adorable jewel he had, sometimes i felt a different relationship was going on between the to especially when Melinda called him daddy other than father, that name gave me the creeps of unwanted feeling, i wan`t allowed to teach Melinda good manners that is why she turned into a conniving little selfish brat, not leaving a chance for me with Tarim.
i know realized my chance after his death, i pretended to cry so that i would`t be blamed by Tarim`s relatives for killing him even though that was God`s will they kept on disliking me and liking my daughter more every sing day, i felt that i was competing with a second wife when Melinda came into picture all the faces concentrated towards her.
the first thing i did was to prohibit Melinda from seeing the tomb because i knew that was the first thing she will request, i tried so hard for them not to see each other and talk in any way since i was the one attending to "cure" him but that slimy little rat was able to see her father dying but that was a bonus to me since it will affect her and that was a complete score for me.
the second thing i left her with my relative knowing that they pretended to like her before her fathers death, i knew by leaving her their she will be treated to my expected satisfaction,since no one liked her even a tiny bit and that is what she didn't know about my family, no one was on her side even Simon didn't try to help or defend her in any way because he was 5 years old not knowing or didnt care about his sister since she got all the love from my relatives.