She couldn’t believe it, her own mother had kept this huge secret from her. Arabella felt utterly betrayed, she felt as if none of these people cared for her, considering they had all been keeping such big secrets from her. The thing about trust was that once it is earned, or given, it is so easy to break – and nothing ever feels the same again once it is gone.
The idea to confront the two traitors overcame Arabella for a moment, a wild image of her bursting into the room and shouting at the two. But, Arabella had just felt her whole world shift in a matter of seconds, and she couldn’t stomach a public affair right now. No, she would confront them privately. Maybe as they were leaving, she could ask them why they had done it. Why her closest friend and own mother had joined a rebellion s
