"It's all Paula, the vicious woman... In the beginning, when your father wanted to marry her, I disagreed! What's so good about a small-town girl? Your mother is such a noble lady, a daughter of a famous family."

Shawn gulped.

The Wood family had a tacit understanding, a consensus, that was, never mentioning Shawn's biological mother.

Even Shawn himself did not have much impression of his mother and could not even remember what she looked like.

It was because his mother had been away from Se