The Great Godmother
Kane walked to my side and said quietly, “Ma’am, it’s done.”
I nodded and turned to pick up Xavier.
“Xavier,” I whispered, “let’s go home.”
James’s downfall was brutal. After being expelled, he became just another powerless man. His enemies, those he’d crushed and humiliated before, swarmed in like vultures.
I never bothered to find out what happened to him afterward. To me, he was already dead.
As for Hilary, she was thrown out of the estate with her child. Rumor had it she tried to return to her family, but they treated her like a curse and slammed the door in her face.