#Chapter 95: Tangled in the Past

Lionel’s POV I am as useless as a butterfly caught in storm winds. Katya’s miraculous reveal completely threw my life off the rails. Seeing her alive was shocking. I was left blindsided. Things moved too fast for me to keep hold of after that. My schedule became a flurry of lawyers, DNA testing, strategy meetings. There was too much to do. So much left unsaid. Things lingering that I would have rather forgotten. To everyone else, I was handling the situation with ease. I took control of the situation with my usual calm. Business as usual. They were wrong. My emotions are a knotted ball of twine. Confusion…relief…suspicion…doubt. It all heaved within me. I was only going through the motions. Trying to untangle the mayhem of this situation. To decide the next move. Everything I had been though with Katya bubbled in my head. The fights. The twisted games. The relief and subsequent gut-wrenching guilt about that. Even worse…the recent guilt I felt. When I