I raised my voice so the whole hall could hear the last thing I would ever say to him.
“Don’t you dare blame a woman for the choices you made yourself,” I said.
“You chose to betray your wife.
You chose to look at your own daughter with contempt.
You chose to steal from the people who worked for you.
Seraphina is a fraud — but you opened the door for her yourself, because you believed she could give you more wealth and status than I could.
Everything that happened tonight, you built with your own hands.
I only stopped holding the door shut against it.”
My father set Poppy carefully into the arms of a waiting doctor and stepped down off the dais to stand in front of Declan.
“When my daughter left my life six years ago for love of you,” he said, quietly enough that Declan had to lean in to hear it, “I wanted to drag her home.