Martin wanted them.
We were drowning in debt.
Elias refused to sell.”
Seraphina’s father stood absolutely still.
Mavis looked toward him.
“We only wanted him frightened.”
Elias’s face hardened.
“My pilot died.”
Mavis closed her eyes.
The ballroom became silent.
Grant whispered, “Mom.”
She looked at her son.
“We thought if Bellamy disappeared, the company would fracture.”
Seraphina felt something cold settle inside her.
Mavis continued, barely audible.
“But it didn’t.”
She looked at Seraphina.
“You took control.”
And there it was.
The final piece.
For eleven years, Mavis Holloway had not merely disliked Seraphina.
She had feared the Bellamy name.
But she had never realized the quiet woman her son brought home was Elias Bellamy’s daughter because Seraphina had been using her mother’s surname socially when she met Grant.
By the time Mavis learned her daughter-in-law’s middle name was Bellamy, the connection had seemed impossible.
