Chapter 394

Linda Quinn knew her daughter was feeling bitter — honestly, wasn’t she too? But still... She explained everything to Mara Hawthorne again — the evidence Cassandra Taylor had, and what Gerald Hawthorne had said while he was home. “Mara, your grandpa said as long as Cassandra gets a public apology and her name cleared, she won’t push things further,” Linda said with a helpless sigh, trying to break it down for her, hoping she’d realize it’s smarter to go with the flow. “No way! I’m not apologizing, never!” Mara cried, practically screaming. “Even you’re siding with Cassandra now—trying to push me off a cliff, is that it?” That wretched Cassandra had already wrecked her perfect life, ruined things between her and Ethan. And now she was supposed to say sorry? Not happening. “But if Cassandra makes those files public, it could destroy you,” Linda warned, keeping her voice low and serious. “Ethan will go ballistic when he finds out you lied to him to get at Cassandra. As for the apology, ju