When Isabelle got to work later, she sat down at her desk and sent a short straightforward message to her father. She wasn’t asking him for permission or his opinion.
She simply wanted to give him a heads up that soon, Jacob would be aware of their scheme. A part of her felt like she was being unfilial, especially because Francis and Lucy had adopted her from the orphanage and raised her in their own home.
Lucy and Naomi might not treat her like family, but at least Francis did his best. It was for his sake that a part of her felt awful about revealing their secret.
But she couldn’t keep allowing them to use her for their benefit while deceiving another innocent person in the process. She felt that even if they had kept their promise, she wouldn’t have been able to keep deceiving Jacob
