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Chapter 127
Darius
I sent a letter to the southern Alpha that Collier was heading his way to wage war on his people.” she said, and I bowed my head. Elbert wasn’t lying when he said my father trespassed. I looked at my mother, and she looked away.
“I had to, Darius, or you won’t be lord. He had sent the decree, which I had to bribe Vino’s father and Jenny to overturn secretly. I did not even know he was screwing her then.
They agreed, but the Balyaev seat would be vacant in exchange, so Lawrence would head the council. I did it for you.
That man wanted to take everything away from us and give Alissa’s son. All my years with him, suffering and supporting him were going to amount to nothing. He wanted to raise a bastard above you, Darius.
He was a cold–hearted maniac, and I had to end him before he ruined what was left of our family and lives.
I loved him, but I couldn’t take it anymore,” She said and sat down and began to weep.
I did not know what to say or do. I was in shock.
“Then why did you have Abelardo wage war against Alpha Corrigan?” I asked her, and she looked away.
“To cover my tracks. Jenny suspected I had a hand in Collier’s death, and she was hell–bent on exposing me. I had to cover my tracks. If someone is punished for the crime, there will be no need to dig into it.”
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“So why did you continue your friendship with Jenny?” I asked her, and She sighed.
“Ever heard of the saying that tells us to keep our enemies close?” She said, and I wondered what more she had done for our honour. A woman’s scorn was truly dangerous, and my mother had proven it.
I was speechless. My mother sat on the couch and was weeping.
I could see she was afraid, and I understood why. She had committed
treason.
I sighed and looked at her. I could see she was tired and wondered how much she was hiding.
“Is there anything else, mother, that I need to know?” I asked her, and she looked at me.
It was hard for her, but she knew her game was up.
“I hated her.” She confessed, and I did not need to guess who she was talking about.
“She came to my house uninvited and told me that she was tired of the money she was getting from me and she needed to get justice for Collier. She was on to something, and I knew she would do it. I do not know if it had anything to do with the bastard that Collier took from her, but she was broken, and she came to vent her anger on me,” my mother said, and I sighed.
“She said I was an idiot and could not take care of business. She bragged to me that I was a fool. She told me she was the one that helped me get rid of my competition.
I only had one competition when it came to your father, and that was Alissa. She told me how she paid the doctor to inject silver into her system.
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Silver doesn’t kill us, it only stops us from healing and makes us weak, which was what it did to Alissa the day she gave birth. The doctor registered her cause of death as an extreme case of preeclampsia. She bragged that I would not be able to prove it because, unlike me, she knew how to tidy up her mess.
The doctor died a month after Alissa passed away. We didn’t see it as anything when it happened, but I figured it out when she told me. I knew Jenny was crazy, but I did not realise how crazy she was until she said what she said.
After she bragged about what she did to Alissa, she said I reaped the benefit of her hard work but not anymore,” my mother said I knew where it was going, but I held my tongue to let her speak.
“I did not know she was screwing your father when I asked her to help secure the Balyaev seat. I found out after he died, and she thought that was why I had him killed. She claimed she loved your father, but it was all a lie. She was a bloody social climber. She dated Gavin Orlov in secret. I knew but kept her secret because her husband was late by then.
I did not know she was also screwing my husband when I learned about her and Gavin. I found out after Hardy had killed him, and I was mad. Jenny was a bloody social climber. She married Jerry Babanin because his family was higher than hers. Before Jerry, she tried to get with my brother, but he did not fancy her. After she married Jerry, she chose to aim higher, so she went after the eldest, Orlovs, and one day I found out she went after Collier Hand too. She just wanted to be at the top. The bitch.
I had someone investigate her so I could have something on her and get her off my back, but I found out she had a child for my husband, which made me snap.
So I started sending her threatening messages hoping she would be so scared and maybe run away, but the bitch always kept her shit together, so I stopped.” She said, and I remembered the anonymous Sagemail letters
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Jenny was getting. I did not tell my mother I had seen those letters so she would not feel bad about it.
“I had to pay her two hundred thousand Lakhs every three months so she wouldn’t raise the issue at the council. The letter might not have carried my name, but once they dug deep, they would figure it out.
So I pretended with her.
The day she died, she came to my house to gloat. She told me she had me where she wanted and could dispose of me whenever. She only let me keep my miserable life because she enjoyed watching me suffer. She told me of her child with Collier, and I pretended to be surprised about it. She told me Collier took her son away from her and how she envied me because he let me raise my children.
