Feel the Way You Feel, My Love Chapter 985
With her face buried in her own hands, Marjorie sniffled. “I’m sorry that I couldn’t say anything and also lacked the courage to back then. That night, I was attending a banquet and had a little too much to drink, so I went out to the backyard to clear my head. That was when I overheard the conversation between Mrs. Graham and Jacqueline.”
“Please continue, Mrs. Larson,” Natalie said in an encouraging tone as she held Shane’s hand.
Marjorie nodded. “Since you came all the way here, I will. I’ve always known that someone will come asking eventually, so I’m going to tell you everything. That night, I heard Mrs. Graham press Jacqueline for her reasons for harming Mr. and Mrs. Graham. The girl stated that it was because Mrs. Graham found out about her true nature and wanted to disown her as her god-daughter. That was what motivated Jacqueline to act against them.”
“I see,” said Natalie as she bit her lip.
So Jacqueline had Shane’s mother killed because she uncovered what Jacqueline was really like. To think that such a monstrous person has survived till now.
With his fists clenched, Shane’s body shivered in a murderous rage, for he had never expected this to be Jacqueline’s justification for killing his parents.
Have they not treated her well enough?
Had he known earlier, he would not have continued to have someone care for Jacqueline for ten years on account of her being his mother’s goddaughter.
He thought he should have taken her off life support when she got into the traffic accident and rued being the one who brought his own parent’s murderer back to life.
That made him feel that he had let his parents down.
Natalie clasped his fingers when she sensed the mood he was in. “Let’s try to stay calm for now, Shane. Shall we hear Mrs. Larson out and see what else she has to say?”
The woman’s gentle voice brought back some of Shane’s capacity for reason.
He took in a deep drawl and closed his eyes before he forced himself to settle down into a slight frown. “Do continue, Mrs. Larson.”
“Okay.” Marjorie nodded. “I was really stunned when I heard this. How could a ten-year-old girl be so vicious as to go as far as to commit murder? What shocked me, even more, was what Jacqueline did to Mrs. Graham.”
“Did Jacqueline also do something to her own mother?” asked an astounded Natalie.
Marjorie grunted under her breath. “Yes. Mrs. Graham might have realized the gravity of her own daughter’s crime and was prepared to have her turn herself in. What I would never have expected was for Jacqueline to threaten to kill herself if Mrs. Graham forcibly took her to the police and cause the Grahams to lose their own child forever. Mrs. Graham was driven to tears that time, and lamented how they could have brought that monster of a child into this world who made them barren.”
That caused Natalie to hold her breath, and even Shane’s brows perked up in astonishment.
“Jacqueline caused her own parents to become sterile?” Natalie swallowed hard.
Marjorie affirmed that with a nod. “Jacqueline behaved really haughtily back then. She told them that it was their fault for wanting more kids which she felt would deprive her of resources and their love. Hence, she decided to drug them and make them impotent, making her the only child they would ever have for the rest of their lives. That was what made Mrs. Graham forgo the idea of making Jacqueline turn herself in.”
“That was because she knew that Jacqueline would be the only child that would be conceived between Mr. Graham and herself, ever. As a mother, I’m not surprised that Mrs. Graham did what she did,” said Natalie with her eyes lowered.
Mrs. Graham’s decision couldn’t be categorically considered right or wrong, because had they turned Jacqueline in, she would likely be kept away from them forever.
At just ten years of age, even if Jacqueline could not be sentenced, the authorities would not have allowed Jacqueline to continue living freely in society in consideration of her antisocial personality disorder. That would mean that she would be detained somewhere indefinitely.
Natalie reckoned that Sisley must have realized this and thus decided to drop the idea in the end. Though she understood the woman’s dilemma, she found herself unable to concur with the decision she made.
“Sheer foolishness.” Shane was conversely a lot more critical of Sisley.
There’s no other way to describe someone who would indulge such a monster.
Marjorie glanced over at Shane. “You’re right about that, Mr. Shane. Mrs. Graham’s decision was foolish, and as a result, she paid a terrible price for it herself.”
