Chapter 62. Gatecrasher

CELINE’s P O V

After hearing all that happened years ago from Mr. Smith, I am unable to adequately express how I was feeling. I experienced a wide range of feelings, including anguish… wrath… sympathy, and love. I felt pain, sadness, and love for my mother even more, for loving me in spite of all she went through with Julio's hands. And a deep-seated hatred for him. A resentment that will never go away towards my father.

Now I understood why Julio despised me so much, to the point that his beatings came dangerously close to taking my life. He didn't have much affection for my mom at all. He didn't love her. And the ache in my heart for her only grew more. My mother gave up much more than her life for me and for Brylee… but why did they even treat her like that?

For Julio Lauren… getting married was merely a strategy to get more wealth. He now controlled all of the Stewart family's riches and had only kept Brylee around as a means of covering his tracks. What a cruel and c