Burn Those Who Burned Me novel Chapter 123

Chapter 123

Noah’s POV:

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We all watched as Graceland made her way downstairs back to the storage closet. I couldn’t believe it; she really didn’t want the room. Over the past several years, Graceland had been humble, docile, sometimes a flat out doormat all out of desperation

for us to love her. But tonight, tonight I saw something in her eyes that I had never seen before. Pure disgust. I felt like a storm was coming and there was no way we could stop

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As the shock wore down, Cole spoke first.

“Maybe we should go down there and apologize, maybe it’ll convince her to take the room.”

Mother scoffed.

“Let her sleep in that closet if she wants too! Now we’re supposed to beg-”

“Why was she in a storage closet to begin with Sharon?”

Dad was now looking at mom with an unreadable expression. I could tell that last

remark Graceland said got to him.

‘If you truly wanted to find me, you could have.‘

She was right. I remember the night Graceland went missing; mother seemed detached. They searched for about three days before mother wanted to give up. She claimed it was too painful to deal with if she couldn’t find her. A few days later, Olivia came home.

Mom looked at dad with shock in her eyes. Her face had gone ashen,

“I only told her she had to stay there for a little while; it’s not my fault she never left!”

Dad called Zelma our head maid into the foyer.

“Yes Sir.”

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Still looking at mom, dad barked his orders.

“Someone tried to frame my daughter by taking a necklace from our bedroom, check the security cameras and tell me everyone that’s been in there.”

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Zelma looked at my father with slightly shocked and puzzled expression. For a moment, I could have swore she glanced at Olivia.

“Did you not understand me!”

“O–Oh yes sir! I’ll have the report first thing in the morning.”

Mom spoke up.

“Calvin! What are you doing this for? Why does it matter now?”

Dad turned and looked at mom, something was definitely bothering him.

“When you thought Graceland stole the necklace it was WW3. Now you’re asking me why I want to know who not only stole something from our bedroom, but tried to frame our daughter?”

Mom looked around the room with a nervous expression, her question really was

ridiculous.

“I’m just saying, it’s over now. She didn’t take the necklace. So, what’s the big deal.”

Dad sneered.

“Maybe because for the first time since she’s come back home, she called Mr. Rochester, instead of dad.”

Dad didn’t say another word, leaving mom speechless as he went to their bedroom. Suddenly, Brian spoke up.

“Graceland is getting out of control! I admit, we were wrong about the necklace, but for her to say all of that stuff!”

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“You mean like the fact that she had to do your schoolwork because you kept screwing up?”

Cole was now looking at Brian with irritation in his eyes. The family was starting to fall

apart. In an attempt to calm everyone down, I stepped in.

“Look everyone, it’s late. It’s been a long night okay. Let’s just all go to bed, we’ll deal with all of this in the morning. Mom, you did hit her…it might not be so wrong to at least say

sorry.”

Mom looked at me with anger and irritation, but she didn’t object. She stormed to her room for the night. Suddenly, Brian started up again.

“Hey Noah, when exactly did you become team Graceland? Trying to make up for the fact that SHE was the reason you were able to get that contract?”

I turned to look at my idiot little brother.

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