This, put simply, was treason.
“You could get exiled for this,” she told Aurelia. “Was it worth it?”
Aurelia laughed. “Exiled? You'd love that, wouldn't you? With me gone, you'd get everything that belongs to me! He’d be yours, like you've always wanted, right?”
Cynthia's eyes widened in disbelief. “Are you blaming me for your failure to seduce him naturally?”
“If you had never sneaked into his bed and gotten pregnant, he wouldn't have married you!”
Cynthia cleared her throat. “I left him all to you, didn't I? How come three years later, that's the excuse you're still using? Is it that the man is no longer interested in you and you cannot stomach the truth?”
“He loves me!” Aurelia screamed. “He has never loved you. You have no idea what it's like between us.”
“Oh, I
