After I decided to stand by Jack's side despite the dark path his past with Emily was leading us down, I thought we were finally on the same united front. Boy, was I naive.
See, while Emily's crazy obsession had been forcibly removed from our lives, she left behind a pretty poisonous parting gift. By the time she got carted off for psychiatric treatment, Emily had already thoroughly brainwashed Jack's powerful family against me.
At first, I tried brushing off their anger as just another example of wealthy snobbishness. These were the elite upper-crusters of society who put everything into antiquated ideas like "pedigree" and "breeding." Of course they'd look down their noses at Jack marrying someone like me from a modest background.
But this went way beyond some good old-fashioned elit
