I'm a Good Stepmom

CHAPTRE 49

|After paragraph one of the first page, I did not find anything important anymore.| Thought Jack.

" Is this over? " Tanya Berick with a lazy face.

" I don't have time to listen to a book like this. " Arnold also spoke lazily, as if he thought that the book was nothing important anymore.

" don't read it anymore. " Say Berick.

Jack was still curious, he began to open the fourteenth page, where evidence would begin to appear there.

As Jack looked at that, he frowned, as if he knew that the page was important enough to read.

" ....Wait, this?!!....

" Fourteenth page, second paragraph.

" Right now my heart, and my mind are very messed up. My mind is not wretched and my tears just keep flowing. Today, exactly one week after I married my husband. My husband suddenly came with a gloomy face, he said that he would DIE—

Jack stopped at the word DEAD, he stared at his two brothers, who at that moment began to be interested in the contents of the note.

Arnold frowned at the sentence Jack had read. Surely he was interested because it concerned his own father.

" What does that mean? " Bernie began to wonder.

" Daddy said that he'd die? what the fuck is that book?!! " Arnold spit in anger.

" It's not over yet. " Jack is talking.

Then she continued before her brother and sister spoke again.

" I couldn't believe his words, I just smiled and said 'Don't joke. ' Those are the words I said to someone who spoke of his own death.

" But he did not respond and said again that he was really going to die. I was there silent with my mouth clenched and a facial expression that began to seriously—

" This can't be true!! this book is a lie!! " Suddenly Berick yelled inadmissively.

" Silence Berick!! it's not finished yet!! " Jack scolds Berick.

Jack then continued.

" He said that he will die tomorrow because of his family's curse—

" Haaahh!....no way!! what the fuck?!" Arnold began to lose control, his face began to harden, he seemed to not want to believe.

" the curse? what curse is he talking about? " Jack wondered.

" Eric said that dad died because of him (Violet), is that just a lie. " Jack kept wondering.

" It doesn't make sense!! don't read it again, it's just a lie!! " Berick hysterically shouted, he even tried to take the book in Jack's hands.

" Stop Berick!! " Jack did not give the book.

" Give me the book!! I'll burn it!! " Berrick kept trying to get the book.

Jack didn't give it to her, and then she read the most important part of the book again.

" He also said that I should look after his sons until they are adults and able to stand on their own. There I cried so much, I refused and continued to refuse. I was thinking, how can I take care of them while I am also a child and immature—

When reading the passage, instantly everything fell silent, as if a lightning of reality had struck them.

|.....How could Dad do that? Dad never said anything to me. What then? wh why? What the hell is going on? | Arnold thinks hard.

They looked at Jack. Jack's lips were locked. Berick and Arnold looked at him as if in doubt.

" Say that the book is a lie? " Said Berick with lethargic eyes as if hoping that it was a lie.

Jack couldn't give Berick the answer he wanted. He also reread the book.

" But my husband's gloomy and desperate face had made me unable to resist. He said who else if it was not me who was fit to fulfill his wish, he entrusted all of it to me, because he was confident that I could. "

Berick and Arnold's face hardened. The fact that Violet lives in this castle is not due to her wishes but the coercion of her father.

" I, with a doubtful and heavy heart, accept the burden my husband has placed upon me.

" After I received the burden, sure enough, my husband died the next day....." Jack finished the paragraph with a claustrophobic heart.

| This book cannot be a lie. This book was written before he married his father. So, there are definitely no lies with the contents of this book. If this is the truth.then, all this time we.....| Arnold is starting to lose his mind.

".....Fathering....Did he really do that just for us? " Berick with his own eyes began to question his father.

Jack's still opening Violet's notebook. He found another important page inside.

Then he read it again.

" .....Paragraph 4 of page 21

" The Marquess family is on the brink of bankruptcy, due to the mounting debt. The nobles kept coming to collect my debt, because I was the new head of the family. I gave up because of my inability.

" I am just an ordinary folk who has no education like royalty. I thought like that, and tried to run and take off this load. But I don't like running away before I finish the promise I made.

" especially when I see Sanjay's little sons. I can't let this family go bankrupt. Maybe they hate me, but I never hate them at all.

" There is no point in hating them because they do not know the truth behind it all. I just want them to grow up and I finish my promise.

" Therefore, I fought hard behind them. I studied without a tutor. Because at that time the family finances were bad, I could not hire a tutor for me, while the children did not receive tutor—

Jack finished that paragraph with a very messed up heart. Arnold was frozen.

Berick is about to cry.

" Uugh....this is impossible.....we make a mistake......how is this?.....

It was as if they were being pushed off a cliff. No words came out. Silence pecking with a heart that is mixed into a fatal mistake.

This was the first time they felt stupid and unconfident like this. Because of his ignorance, they had hurt someone who should have been lamented by them.

Because without Violet, they probably wouldn't feel the luxury and education they deserve.

"......If this is the truth, then? did Eric lie all this time? " Jack in the silence spoke.

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SERIATE.......

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