|Theodore|
To piece together what truly unfolded that morning—just as Carmella had admitted—she confessed to provoking Jeremiah’s wife deliberately. She’d said those pointed things, not out of spite, but to gauge Lily’s reaction. At least, that was her claim. According to Carmella, she wanted to see if Lily had the strength, the grace, the temperament to be Jeremiah’s wife.
A test, she called it.
But as I sat there, quietly observing the shift in everyone’s expressions, I couldn’t help but wonder—was that really all there was to it? Had Carmella’s words stemmed from simple curiosity... or was there something else buried beneath her motives? Something unspoken. Something more…personal.
I kept listening, catching every nuance of what had gone down between the women earlier. The room, on
