Seventy-two:
Christian Cardinal
This is it.
This is the part in the story that you’ve all been waiting for. The Villain Monologue. The origin story, the part of the plan. Because if you didn’t think that the man who was in love with Piper who had the ability to shapeshift into anyone wasn’t going to do something deliciously evil you don’t know how to read people at all.
Years ago, I fell in love with Piper. I was young, and foolish, and she was so determined to be free from the Tanagers it was easy to make her mine. Ransom interfered. He always interfered with everything. But here is the part that they all like to forget. I wasn’t the only child that my father had.
My father, Daniel Cardinal, was a man who had many mistresses. And m
