Gabriella was dazed for a few seconds, not exactly sure of what she had just heard. She looked from Maxwell's face to Ryan's for any indication that they were messing with her, but clearly Maxwell was trying to hide back his emotions, and Ryan reached out to hug her but she gently pushed him away. How was it possible? What was Maxwell saying? Her father was dead? She may not have shared a strong connection with the man but he was her father, and she had grown up with him for the most part of her life. How could Maxwell just casually tell her that her own father was dead and that he took his own life?
Steven Long was a lot of things but she never for once considered him suicidal Yes he was mean to her, and he sold her off to a psychopath, and maybe sometimes he came up too hard on her,
