Chapter 35: A DESPERATE DAUGHTER
After the embarrassing dinner, Claudia and Elisa had retreated to their rooms where the elderly woman scolded her daughter. She didn’t know what to do with her daughter. Fighting for a man way beneath her...
The Hamiltons are going Bankrupt, they’re useless to the Blackwoods. Alanis should be begging to be married to Claudia and not the other way around.
"What did you say such Claudia, I’ve warned you to watch your words especially when we have guests." Elisa began pacing around the room, her heels clicking sharply against the marble floor, while Claudia sat on the bed still angry about the embarrassment she caused herself.
To her, she would never take accountability for it, she’d rather blame Harlow for everything that happened tonight. She would get her one way or another.
"Harlow won against us tonight Claudia. We need to do something about that girl, and also about Frank." Elisa continued. She had thought about dealing with the father and daughter for the longest. It was time she implemented her plans, but her plans for Frank could not work if Harlow was still living in the mansion.
"Mother please help me. I... I love Alanis so much and I know deep down, he loves me too." Claudia held her mother’s arm as she cried. Elisa felt pity for her daughter, she hated seeing her this way.
"Harlow, I had no idea she would try to take Alanis away from me. Only God knows what she’s done to him." She continued panting as she cried too.
"I must marry him, mother. I—I can’t live without him, Mother. If I lose him to that—that girl..." Her voice broke, and a dangerous thought slipped out. "I might as well—"
"Enough!" Elisa snapped her voice like a whip. "Do not speak such nonsense. You think so little of your life that you’d throw it away for a man?"
"You should be ready to kill me too Claudia. Do you know the repercussions of suicide?"
Claudia recoiled but nodded silently.