JOSEPHINE'S DILEMMA
Author: Slytherin_Era
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

"Did they say anything?" Hobbes asked Bryan who stepped out of the room, Bryan shook his head with disappointment, "I knew they wouldn't say anything but still it's disappointing."

Hobbes smiled at Bryan, "don't worry, sooner or later, you'll find out everything," Bryan hummed, "thanks for your help, I'll take my leave now."

"Well Josephine Winterwood, your mother, do you know she isn't originally the real daughter of her family?" Hobbes asked, to which Bryan looked confused, "huh?"

Hobbes came to Bryan and whispered in his ear, "she was originally an adopted daughter, after she got pregnant with your sister Nancy, she became wife of your father, that's how she became important to the family once she belonged to, but back then there are rumors everywhere, she was mistreated in her family."

"All these," before Bryan could speak about it, Hobbes said avoiding the topic, "let's meet later, you must be going to home right, say to your father that I asked about his health, inform him,
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