PRESENT DAY
"So because of you my mother died?" Jasmine demanded tears in her eyes. "All because of your jealousy.
"Your mother came into my life and chose to steal my husband away from me." Maria said. "I only wanted her out of the pack. I did not want to to kill her. That was a mistake."
Jasmine bit her bottom lip. "So what happened when my father returned?"
Maria took in a very deep sigh. "He seemed different. Like something had changed him. He was not angry at me. Rather he was angry at you. It shocked everyone."
Jasmine could not understand any of it at all.
It made absolutely no sense.
He had been overly protective of her mother when she had first come so how had he turned out to be so wicked.
"When he returned he was not so upset." Maria said. "It shocked us all. He did not punish me and I don't remember much of it. But your father was not so upset as we all expected he would be. It was like a spell had come over him."
Maria touched the side of her wall.
