Chapter 171: Dark & Light
I sucked in a breath and held it. I’ve moved past the point of getting angry at whatever she said about me or did to me but any reference to my mother still left me boiling with anger. My mother is dead. Why can’t they just leave her alone?
“Any guesses as to why you’ve been summoned here today?” Madame Francesca asked as she slowly and gracefully got to her feet. Slowly and very deliberately, she walked towards me until she was standing less than an arm’s length away from me.
“No, Madame Francesca,” I replied evenly as if reciting a poem.
“I see...” She said in a tight voice before turning with rapid speed to fetch a white envelop that was resting on the armchair.
Before I could react, the furious Madame Francesca had flung a pile of what I initially thought was paper at my face. The paper scattered in the air all around me and I felt a slight sting on my cheek. Reaching up, I realized that one of them must have left a slight cut on my face.
As the paper started falling to the ground, did I realize that they were not ordinary paper at all. They were photographs. All of them of Zak and me. Who took these? There were so many of them and it showed us throughout our relationship.
“No...” I said in shock as my eyes fell on photographs of us having sex.
“How can you live with all of your sins? You never focus on your studies because you spend all of your time at school seducing my son. What do you believe you will ever gain? He’s just using you for your body! You’ll never get to marry him! I will never allow it!” Madame Francesca started shrieking at the top of her lungs.
In the world that I currently live in, being born poor was a crime. Being poor and falling in love with the rich was the worst crime. In that respect, perhaps Madame Francesca was right. My mother and I, we both fell deeply in love with the rich Rosenhalls.