Past occurrences

Jessica doesn’t seem to mind, though. In fact, she seems eager to talk. The fire is dying out, so I get up and add some more logs of wood to it before coming back to sit and listen attentively to her.

“I’m getting there. For a long time after your dad found out about what I did, I tried to keep it a secret from Sebastian, because I knew that he might not forgive me for it.

Also, I tried to get back in your dad’s good graces, but he refused to believe that it was only once I had sex with the model manager. He believed I was a slut and would continue to cheat on Sebastian if I got married to him. Nothing I said or did could convince him otherwise.

After I was kidnapped, your father believed that I had run off of my own free will in shame, because we had a serious fight that night of my kidnap. There was not much to indicate that I had been kidnapped.