Silent Vendetta: Twisted Ties of Fate

After my beloved boyfriend dies in a fire, my sister marries a rich man. So, I marry her husband, Jason Grant's father.

We go from being sisters to being mother and daughter-in-law. We're still a family, aren't we?

Later, Jason pins me to a corner while breathing heavily. "Money is all you want, right? I can give you everything he can. Wouldn't it be much better for you to be with me than with a paralyzed old man?"

Oh, he's got this all wrong. Money isn't what I want.

His life is what I want.

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Saul Grant sat in his wheelchair. Despite being extremely pale and weak, he was still the picture of power and authority. He lifted his chin and looked at Jason Grant, his son.

"This is Hazel Youngblood. She will be your stepmother from today onward."

As soon as he was done speaking, he started coughing so violently it sounded as if his lungs would fly out.

There was a loud crash.

Brianna Lewis stopped short before me with her huge, protruding belly, the plate of fruits falling from her hands and crashing onto the ground into a million pieces.

Her voice shook as her eyes filled with disbelief.

"Hazel? How's that possible? How could you marry my father-in-law? How dare you?"

I smiled gently and answered, "He wanted me, and I wanted him, so why wouldn't I dare? Didn't you also marry Jason after all?"

Brianna's eyes were filled with unshed tears. She held a hand to her heart and cried, "How's that the same? How could siblings marry into the same family, one to the son and one to the father?

"How would the Grants see us next time? How would they treat us if they knew? Have you even thought about how outsiders would make a joke out of us if they ever found out?"

I shook my head despite Saul's concerned eyes on me. "My last name is Youngblood, and your last name is Lewis. We don't even share the same last name, and there are no other living relatives of ours who would ever point us out.

"Nobody would ever know if you didn't tell them. They wouldn't even know we were siblings! Also…"

I kneeled down next to Saul's wheelchair and held his icy-cold hands in mine. "...Who are you to say that we aren't deeply in love with each other?"

"Haha!"

A mocking look appeared on Brianna's face, but Jason clapped a hand over her mouth before she could say anything else.

"Dad, don't fall for other people's tricks. She's nothing but a gold digger. She only married you because she has other ulterior motives!"

Saul narrowed his eyes at him and said faintly, "It's not like everyone close to me doesn't have any ulterior motives anyway."

"I don't—"

Jason wanted to retort instinctively. However, he gave up on the idea when he saw the look in his father's eyes.

Meanwhile, I calmly wheeled Saul up under Brianna's death