No wonder Cora had always treated me with such contempt. In her mind, Georgette was the CEO who lived in the villa. And I was the pitiful orphan Georgette had taken in out of charity.
So all this time, Cora believed I was the one freeloading in her house, scheming to steal her only-daughter status.
It was absurd.
Cora spun around and announced to her classmates at full volume. "Do you guys have any idea how shameless this woman is? She parks herself in my house every single day. You can't get rid of her. I even left a note telling her to stop mooching off our place, and she lost it. Called the cops and told them my mom was bullying her."
"My mom was worried she'd blow it up into a scandal that would hurt the company's reputation, so she just let it go. Bought me this villa so I could live on my own."