Chapter 31

Catherine set her coffee down and sneered, "Since you came crawling, I'll be nice for once. But I don't just want the Turner family's matriarch title—I want everything that comes with it." She knew exactly what she was doing. If she didn't snatch the purse strings from the old Turner matriarch now, then when? "You're not even through the door, and you already want control?" William's mom growled, her jaw clenched tight. "Elizabeth's been married in for two years and never dared to go there. What the hell makes you think you can?" Sure, officially the Smith household should be under William's wife's authority—but if she gave an inch now, Catherine would bulldoze through without mercy. "Well, that's because Elizabeth was stupid. Backed by a family like that, and she still wouldn't stand up to you? Couldn't even hold onto what was hers. Honestly, she had it coming." Her words jammed William's mother's throat. Elizabeth's soft and obedient face flashed across her mind for a second, only to