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Vanessa Smythe 9/7/2017 1:01:41 PM
Her mother was calling out to him as he walked down the stairs.
‘Vanessa gets an inheritance when she turns eighteen.’
The moment of joy in Vanessa’s life was gone. Just like that, Mason was back in her mother’s arms. He wanted to know all about the money. There was a long discussion about selling assets to keep them going until the day the money arrived. Then silence as he was back in the bedroom with his wife. Her mother had just told him the one thing that she didn’t want him to know. She would never be able to forgive her mother for what she had just done. Lucinda had put her husband in front of her own daughter. Vanessa felt like running away but where would she go and how would she survive? The only thing she could think of was to tape record the boys talking. That should be enough evidence to have the Macleod family thrown out of the house.
The next morning, Vanessa woke to a knock on her door. She expected her mother to be standing there apologising but was surprised to see Mason.
‘I want to talk to you,’ he said pushing the desk back to the wall, ‘I know you go to a girls’ school but there might be boys that start to pay attention to you now that you are getting older.’
Vanessa didn’t need to be told about sex as she had learnt it from school and as of late, had learnt enough by watching Mason and her mother together. Then she thought that maybe he had infected her mother with some deadly disease, as why else would he be giving her the sex talk. Pulling the blankets over her head, she decided that if she had to listen to him, it would be better not to see him. Surprisingly, as she listened, he seemed quite concerned for her welfare. He had never really spoken to her before. Him, knowing about the inheritance was going to make a difference. Maybe he might be nice to her from now on, or at least until she turned eighteen. Then what? Would he get rid of her in some way, so that he could have the money to himself?
His sons had made Vanessa’s life a misery so far. Now the inheritance was out in the open, would that change anything? The muffling sounds were getting louder as she pulled her head out of the blankets to face Mason. He was still rambling on about boys and how they might be using her for her money. Then the penny dropped. Of course, he was worried about her getting serious with a boy as then he might influence her with keeping the money for herself and not sharing it with her new family. This was something that she was going to use to her advantage; starting right now.
At the sound of Mason knocking on her door, Vanessa knew that things would be going her way from now on. As she let him in to put her breakfast on the desk, she thanked him and told him to leave. Her plans for recording the boy’s discussions were no longer required! Gavin, William and Richard waited in disbelief for her to come out of her bedroom. The door seemed to take an eternity to open but when it finally did, they were faced with their stepsister. Loathing was on Gavin’s face as he attempted to smile at her walking past. All he could think of was how to trip her up but had to stop himself from putting his foot out in front of her. The three boys followed her to the lounge as she announced that she would like to be driven to school. Waiting to see what their father would do, Gavin nearly choked on hearing his father coming out of the kitchen with the keys in his hand. The boys stood behind her, glaring at their father, while she turned to smile at them as she headed out the door.
