All Chapters of FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED: Chapter 201 - Chapter 202

ELLA'S POVWe spent the following days working through Alaric's journal with painstaking, methodical attention, understanding the genuine importance of fully comprehending exactly what historical grievance had apparently driven this hidden, patient architect toward decades of calculated manipulation against our entire family."His earliest entries focus almost entirely on his relationship with your grandfather," I said, working through the journal's careful, chronological documentation alongside Jason, both of us reading by lamplight in his study late one evening. "Listen to this, from when he was apparently only nineteen years old."I read aloud, my voice carrying the weight of Alaric's own decades-old, carefully preserved bitterness: "Father has named Edmund the heir apparent, despite everything our family's own records clearly establish regarding the original succession agreement. I am the younger son by mere minutes, a twin separated by nothing except the arbitrary cruelty of birt