Chapter 7 - Daniel Did Not Know How Badly His Mother Had Been Pressuring Me
This was one of my mistakes.
I hid part of it from him.
Not everything.
He knew Victoria made cruel comments.
He knew she wanted trust money.
But I did not tell him every conversation.
Why?
Because Daniel and Victoria already fought constantly over me.
Every time I told him something, he confronted her.
Every confrontation became another family war.
So I started editing.
When Victoria said:
“If Daniel were married to someone healthy, he wouldn’t need your mother’s money.”
I told him she was “being difficult.”
When she said:
“You should sign the investment agreement before Daniel realizes how much easier his life would be without you.”
I said nothing.
When she told me:
“My son is thirty-two. Do you really expect him to spend the next fifty years pushing your chair?”
I cried alone.
That secrecy helped Victoria.
Cruelty grows in edited versions.
The night of the dining-room confrontation, Daniel finally understood how far it had gone.
His mother was not merely impatient.
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She was trying to break my confidence until signing away financial control felt like compensation for being loved.
And when she slapped me, every polished excuse disappeared.
