“I don’t know how this could happen ... you two. I’ve heard your stories. You both take the blame and want to protect the other.” I glanced at...Donna, but she just kept looking at Mom who continued, “You are both good kids. And I am sure I am partially to blame. I know there have been problems and our life hasn’t been the most stable.”At this Donna tried to interrupt, “Mom it’s not you...”“Donna, let me get through this.” Mom said before taking another sip. Looking at Donna she said, “You .... She laughed."Get out," Deedee said curtly. "This is now my office. You may take your tame doxy with you, right down the hall, that empty office where poor Mr. Philips use to work before you bought him out. What did that cost us?" Forget it," Margo snarled. "No 16-year-old bitch is going to take over my company." Now," said Deedee to her cowering lawyer. They gabbed Margo by the elbows, dragged her to the floor-to-ceiling widow, levered it open and shoved her out. Screaming and waving her arms,. I have connections everywhere, precious.” “I still don’t understand how you saw me though, Chandler? You would only be able to see me if you had cameras around the bus...” I trail off and I feel my knees begin to buckle under me until they soon touch the carpet harshly. “See? Now you know exactly what I am talking about when I say that I saw something that alarmed me when I looked through the footage.” I shake my head and I swallow the lump in my throat, forcing myself to calm down and not. ” She narrowed her eyes. “Because you took everything.” “Yes.” I whispered. Elena averted her gaze from mine, and stared out the window. The dusk was beginning to fall on this day, the last day of Highland greatness. I knew it was so. There were moments in history that scholars salivated over, cataclysmic moments with a clear before and after. When some historian a hundred years from now wrote ‘The Rise and Fall of the Highland Kingdom,’ he would mark this day as the apex. I would be remembered.