Kons remained quiet by her side while she was fuming with anger. She couldn’t understand how her father could say such things. Her parents’ relationship was not perfect, and she didn’t know everything they had gone through. But to her, Valya was a good mother and wife. She couldn’t believe that her mother could betray her father like what Gordon was saying now.
She was about to stand up and scream at her father when Kons held her back.
“Don’t,” he said firmly but almost in a whisper.
They exchanged glances. She didn’t want to hear any disrespect toward Valya’s memory. Even though she knew she would hear those things and told herself she was prepared for anything, it still hurt to hear her mother’s character being tarnished in court… in front of so many people, most of whom were stranger
