Seventy

Ellen’s POV

After they adopted the child, Grandma Monica took over the business from him. She disregarded all his efforts and ran it by herself. She always made them give extra care and attention to her despite having his own family to take care of.

Grandma Monica had doted on this adopted daughter more than she did on Liz, Gabriel, and myself. Close to her death bed, my father heard from his intel in the legal department that Grandma Monica had plans of giving everything to this unknown child, whose parents they knew nothing about.

Grandma Monica had cancer which led to her death, so my father asked those people at the hospital to help include dementia in her report, just in case she wanted to act funny and she did.

“So while she was saintly to almost everyone, she was evil to me and turned me into the beast I am today.”

Father sighed, taking a sip from his glass of whiskey.

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Zeke’s POV

Sitting in my study, surrounded by so much work but my mind was occupied with El