Chapter 110

Stopping, she turned towards me and the harshness of her demeanor changed. She locked eyes with me and spoke softly, “It’s not your fault my dear. To question something that you don’t understand and as you can see is not clear. You see, Clarynn is not our real daughter. We found her on our door steps when she was just a baby. I raised her as my own, but her arrogance and thirst for power and status has taken her down to chose a different path that ultimately separated her from this household. She has made her choice in life and I cannot support her in these decisions. You see at one time, all these images on the wall once held many of Clarynn and my husband. But Josh after… after Jennifer went to a boarding school…”  She shook as she continued, “You see, Josh came home one day and was overcome by madness as he ripped the images off the walls and burned them…” My mother’s eyes travelled to that day and she shuddered from the memory. “You should have seen him. He was unstopp