Cecilia clenched her jaw, her fists balling into tight knots as she struggled to contain the anger rising inside her. "I'm absolutely sure it is because of her. She's the one who got him thinking like this," she said bitterly.
How dare Rebecca tell her son that it would be better if they left?
Rebecca was the stranger who had come into their family, yet she was already trying to chase a mother out of her own son's house.
Even though Cecilia was only Cedric's stepmother, she had always carried the belief that she had raised him and had been his father's wife for years, which meant she had every right to advise him and tell him what was best for him because she believed she knew him better than anyone else.
What she refused to accept, however, was that being family did not give her the right to own Cedric or dictate every decision he made for the rest of his life.
