Third Person's POV Mortimer got into the car, rubbing his increasingly painful temples as he stared at the message he'd sent to Seraphina a few hours ago, which still hadn't received a reply. She knew. She knew he had "helped" Lillian take down the videos of Dash being abused; she knew he had once again "chosen" Vivian over her in order to "protect" Vivian. So she could never leave Dash in his hands again. She couldn't trust him anymore. So when he suffered a gastric hemorrhage, she didn't even come to see him, not even ask a single question. Time and time again, he had acted like he knew better, only to make everything worse. She must have hated him more than anything. Mortimer felt a headache coming on, pain pulsing sharply through his temples. He called Seraphina again, and this

