Francesca stared across the room at Linnea unblinkingly, and the young girl squirmed uncomfortably. She didn’t know what to expect. She knew that she was going to have to face the consequences of her actions, but she had never been in serious trouble before and she didn’t know her father well enough to have any idea how he would treat her. She was resentful of Francesca, and she hated feeling like her father had chosen somebody else over her again. She had heard the same things about Francesca as everybody else, and she had been sure her father would be happy without the woman who had rejected and humiliated him. “I didn’t know about her…” She spat the words out rather unexpectedly and then stared down at her feet. It confirmed something Francesca and Jonas had both suspected - she h

