Chapter 36

"Will this day ever end?" Maggie mumbled the moment she stepped inside the house.

First, her suspicions about who Denis Wade was to her were confirmed. Then, she found out that her fiancé knew about it all along. In fact, Rebecca, her own mother, told him before she told her. After that, she found that same fiancé making some kind of deal with her newly discovered father. And now she comes to the place she started to see as her home to find another unpleasant surprise.

Maggie noticed an unfamiliar black limo in front of the gate on her way to the garage, and she was wondering who it might be. To her utter surprise, she found Jack's mother sitting in the living room.

"What was that?" Annabel asked, not sure if she heard Maggie right.

"Nothing." Maggie had no desire to explain anything to this woman. "Good afternoon," she greeted Annabel, smiling with one of her most polite smiles, the one she mastered in her early days working as a waitress. "If you