"Dad!" Fiona cried out, interjected, her voice cracking. "I don't want the necklace anymore. Please, don't fight over me..."
'This insufferable bitch.'
Just when I had finally made a point, she brought it all back to something as trivial as the necklace.
'No!'
I ignored her, my gaze fixed on Conrad. "Her real parents are a stain on us all. They're a ticking time bomb for our family." I spoke with calculated coldness, playing the part of a dutiful daughter, focused on family interests, "As long as they're alive, the threat will always hang over us." I brought up the past, my voice low. "Before I make everything public, I can still send them straight to prison as Helena Torren."
"I've told you. You have nothing to do with them!" Conrad snapped at me, his anger flaring. "You can't even r
