I found it hard to believe what my father was saying, and that wasn't all. Alexander was aware of everything before me, his own daughter, the one who was in danger and still was, the one who was most affected by a woman who pretended to be the best friend of the family for so many years. And now, the danger continued, but not just for me, but for my own son.
My father finished telling me about his past with that woman, if she could be called that. Mrs. Dubois confessed to my father that she was in love with him the day before my parents' wedding, thinking that my father reciprocated her feelings and that with that confession he would leave everything behind to run away with her. But she was wrong because he rejected her and went through with the wedding as if that woman hadn't said a word
