Chapter 9

I heard Helena nearly bled out during labor, and that the baby boy was born with some defects. After my father and Brandon saw how the Lambert family reacted, they didn't bring up pulling their funding again, and they reluctantly agreed with Carson to have me stay. However, when word somehow reached my father and Brandon that my condition had worsened and that Francine had almost been framed because of Helena's schemes, they demanded an explanation from Carson. Helena had just been kicked out of the villa when she was brought back once more. My father argued that a woman with that kind of wickedness couldn't be allowed to wander freely out there. Carson said I should decide her fate. After all, she was the one who ruined me. I ordered some men to drag her out to an abandoned factory on the edge of town. There, I had them strip the thick down coat off her and left her in a thin sweater, then I ordered them to break her arm. She curled up on the cold concrete, shivering with pain,