Tiana had been awake all through the meeting but now, she was getting tired, so she lay on Nicklaus laps as she slept. His hands played with her hair as he listened to Michael speak.
''I was ignorant of all these. I knew Catherine was wicked, but never would I ever have thought that she would have done that, and to think she went to the extent of raising me just for a stand-in for her son. So this was her grand plan all along, get the Howells Corporation and kill me off so I don't get any part of her son's company. ''
Michael voiced in shock. He had imagined a trillion wicked things she must have done to Nicklaus, but he never imagined that she was capable of that. At that moment, he felt chills run down his spine; to actually be alive was is a miracle.
