Chapter 9

I wholeheartedly agreed with Kenneth's opinion and immediately hired a private detective to look into Howard's past. It turned out that Howard's mother, Darcia Cromwell, had been my father's first love. She had become pregnant out of wedlock and conceived his child. However, my father, Ernest Lowe, had only found out about it after marrying my mother, Hazel Emerson. Darcia had sent Howard to the Lowes so that he could live a better life, but Howard had always held a grudge against Hazel because he felt that she had ruined the relationship between Ernest and Darcia. He had, therefore, tried every method available to him to destroy my parents' relationship, but his sabotage attempts had not gotten anywhere since they were always away on business trips. Hence, he had turned his attention to me instead. Darcia had gotten pregnant after remarrying someone else, and she had given birth in the exact same hospital as Hazel. So, he had replaced me with his half-sister as if he were playi