Chapter 10 - Victoria Faces Emma Without Her Status
Victoria requested a meeting with Emma.
Emma agreed in a lawyer’s office.
No mansion.
No staff.
No staircase.
No crystal glasses.
Victoria arrived alone.
“I’m sorry.”
Emma waited.
“For the glass?”
“For all of it.”
Victoria admitted she had recognized Emma’s surname during the
background check.
She suspected immediately that Emma was Laura’s daughter.
Instead of telling Daniel, she increased Emma’s workload and criticized
her constantly, hoping she would quit.
“Why?”
“Because I thought if Daniel learned the truth, I would lose him.”
Emma looked at her.
“So you tried to make me feel small enough to leave.”
“Yes.”
“You called me a maid like that meant I was beneath you.”
Victoria began crying.
“Yes.”
Emma did not comfort her.
Then Victoria said something unexpected.
“My father treated household staff the same way.”
Emma’s expression hardened.
“That explains where you learned it. It does not make me responsible for
absorbing it.”
“I know.”
Victoria admitted the glass had been intentional.
She wanted to frighten Emma.
She did not intend for it to hit her face.
Emma replied:
“You don’t get credit because your aim was slightly less terrible than
the result could have been.”
Victoria nodded.
Emma asked one final question.
“If I weren’t Daniel’s niece, would you still think what you did was
wrong?”
Victoria took a long time.
“Yes.”
“Would you have understood that before this?”
“No.”
Emma stood.
“That’s the part you need to live with.”
She left.
Daniel was not waiting outside.
Emma had asked him not to be.
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The confrontation belonged to her.
She did not need a Whitmore man standing nearby to make her words count.
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