She would be a hypocrite if she said she was ok with her mother's lies. How could she be alright with that? But she was not a monster not to forgive her for it.
She knew her mother had her reason. But she guessed she would need time to absorb all this new information. Frankly, she was not expecting any of it, not even in her wildest imagination.
"Eida Harlowe." Her mind kept repeating the name inside her head. That was her mother's name, not Sarah Richmond. That also means she was Luisa Harlowe.
Still, she felt like the story was too farfetched to be true. The characters and the plot could have come from an intricate novel but not in real life.
"I was not protecting you from your father but from your future." Her mother's words reverberated in her mind as she sat quietly beside her, digesting her mother's revelation.