After telling Ines everything about what Sienna had done, the drugs, the locked room, the attempted assault on Arkai, the attack at the cemetery and the threat to the family's reputation, Ines fell into heaps of tears and sobs.
Her carefully maintained composure shattered completely. She crumpled in her chair, her hands covering her face, her shoulders shaking with the force of her grief.
The sounds that escaped her were raw. Now, she was merely a mother whose understanding of her child had just been destroyed.
Cecilia watched her calmly.
She knew this woman had enabled Sienna's behavior, perhaps since childhood. Had never said no. Had never set boundaries. Had never taught her daughter that the world didn't revolve around her wants and whims.
But there were plenty of children raised that way who didn't become what Sienna had become. They made mistakes, yes, some serious, some less so. But drugging and attempted rape?
