Chapter 11

Caroline snapped her head aside. Her voice was shrill as she said, "It was your father who stumbled drunk into the road and ran straight toward my dad's car. My dad didn't even have time to hit the brakes! He had paid off all your father's gambling debts, and that was grace enough. "However, your father was a bottomless pit, never satisfied. You're twisting the truth, using revenge as an excuse to play with people's feelings. Just because your mother married my father, you and your father think you can bleed us dry?" She continued, "If I had known, I would have never agreed to my father marrying your mother. Then, my sister and I wouldn't have had the misfortune of ever meeting you. You and your father have done nothing more than bring disaster to our family!" The moment her words spilled out, the room fell into dead silence. Caroline's body shook uncontrollably. She looked at Bradley and noticed that his eyes were turning red and his expression hollow. She thought that she had bee