Chapter 10 - NATHAN DIDN’T BLAME VICTORIA FOR HER BIRTHThe press eventually learned the engagement was canceled.
Not why.
Rumors spread.
Affair.
Financial dispute.
Grace returning.
Secret child.
Nobody knew the incestuous truth yet.
Nathan could have publicly destroyed Victoria.
He didn’t.
He told her privately.
She collapsed.
“No.”
Then:
“No, no, no.”
She called Caroline.
Her mother admitted it.
Victoria screamed so loudly Nathan left the room.
Later she asked him:
“Did you know?”
“No.”
“Did Grace?”
“No.”
Then:
“Did your mother?”
Nathan said nothing.
That answered.
Victoria’s hatred shifted.
Toward Eleanor.
Crane.
Her mother.
Henry.
Everyone who had let her unknowingly build a romantic relationship with her own brother.
She also had to confront what she did to me.
Both truths existed.
She was victimized by family secrecy.
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She also assaulted me.
Being harmed does not erase harm you cause.
