Broken Flower by VC Andrews

Author:VC Andrews [Andrews, VC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Suspense, Sagas, Family Life
ISBN: 9780743298414
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-09-26T05:00:00+00:00

"Exactly the sort of attorney I would need to do battle with a March," Mama said.

"Don't be ridiculous. He's no match for what I can produce. It will be a long, drawn-out affair. You'll be in battle for every nickel and dime. We'll even fight you on custody of your children."

"Custody of my children? How could you even think..."

"Jordan's condition would be exposed and how poorly you've handled it."

"What? As soon as I found out—"

"You kept it secret. You were too embarrassed or whatever to take her immediately to the doctor.

Never mind that you hid all this from me, another woman, you hid it from your own husband until she had an abnormal menstruation, and now you have her thirteen-year-old brother tutoring her about sex."

"Tutoring?"

"What did he give her for her birthday?"

The silence we heard thundered in both our hearts and minds. "Christopher told you about that?"

"Of course," Grandmother Emma said. "And also that you approved and even complimented him on the gift."

"He was just trying to be helpful, to be a big brother."

"A thirteen-year-old boy is now an expert on female matters? What other advice has he given her?

Do you even know?"

I looked at Ian. His face was bright red.

"Did you say anything to Daddy or to her about my Sister Project?" he whispered. I shook my head quickly.

"Just imagine," Grandmother continued, "what it would be like to have such information, such embarrassing information, revealed in a public courtroom.

"The child will have to be brought in to testify as well" she added.

"You would do that?"

"Once it's in the hands of attorneys..."

"You're more of a monster than I imagined,"

Mama said.

"Don't be melodramatic. All I'm saying is we should avoid all that. I am prepared," she continued,

"to give you a confident sense of independence. I will tomorrow go into my attorney's office and set up a very sizable trust fund for the children. I will deposit a quarter of a million dollars in an account solely in your name with no conditions whatsoever."

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