“Sienna cannot be trusted,” Serena said. “Despite my many warnings, Annette continued to trust her. Even now, though she knows Sienna is involved, she struggles to cast the blame fully. It would be unwise to keep Annette around while you are handling Sienna. Annette will only endanger herself needlessly to try to make sense of things.”
Jake’s jaw locked as he looked from Serena to me and back again.
“I don’t want history to repeat itself,” Jake said.
“It won’t,” I insisted. “Annette and Amelia are too different people. And I’ve… learned… from the failures I made in the past…”
Jake glared at me, before looking back at Serena. Clearly, my opinion was going to be secondary here. That was fine, so long as he listened to one of us.
“He is not the same man as he once was,” Serena said. “He
