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25: Transgressions

Winnie's POV

My eyes scanned the document, searching for some other meaning within the meaning in my mother's will. However, the truth was right before me, and my eyes were brimming with hot tears of relief and anger.

"In any event that I should pass, I leave my residence to my husband, Charles Cirillo. This residence shall reside under his name and obligation. If said property is still within possession until Charles' passing, this residence will be passed to Gwendolyn Cirillo's ownership. As this has been established, all financial assets, including the Cirillo Shipping Company, will be hereby under Gwendolyn's ownership if Charles were to pass if still under ownership. As for my son, Gavin Cirillo, he will be given direct ownership of my residence in Mykonos, Greece, allowing him escape and receive well-needed healing the property has to offer."

The will continued to list more and more assets of my mother's, then suddenly the text cut off and that was the end. Like a page was missing.

I did't think too hard into it before I finally sat the letter down, tears streaming down my face. I knew my mother was smarter than she let anyone else know, but the fact she left everything to my father, who complied with my mother's wishes of giving me ownership of everything that was my mother's, broke me down.

It's the fact that I never got to see this legal document ever before up until now. It's the fact that Gavin kept this to himself instead of coming to me about it. If Gavin was a better person than he was, we could've worked something out.

It's not like I really wanted this position to begin with.

And the fact she left her home in Greece to Gavin as a means of escape for him, or in her own words, as a form of therapy, was mind-blowing to me. But honestly, to Gavin, it probably felt like he was being pushed away and out of his own family.

The fact that my dad followed this will without a shadow of doubt, probably felt like the whole family was out to get Gavin. No wonder he was so angry with me and then suddenly eased up on hurting me once mom passed away. He knew that everything would eventually be mine, so he planned and planned on getting something of his own. And then taking the rest of what he wanted from me.

My pride.

No wonder he was so hell bent on trying to kill me.

Scott was just the first thing on his checklist before he got to my gang next. And we managed to both come together and stomp his gang out. Including him.

It's weird seeing my full, birth name in legal writing. I haven't been called Gwendolyn since before my mother became deranged.

Whatever happened to my mother is still a medical mystery. There's never been an instance of fatal bone cancer that wasn't curable, but her's... Was different. To my understanding, she had gone years without treatment for her ongoing swelling and pain. Thus leading to the diagnosis of stage 4 bone cancer.

The thing about bone cancer is that it's one of the more curable cancers without the repercussion of death. However, she still passed.

I think, and this is just a theory, that she knew she had something wrong with her body and overall health. I think she felt like she had to die in order to try and make things right with her family. So she let the symptoms continue until the point she couldn't physically take it anymore.

She also had a huge soft spot for Gavin, and as much as she loved her first born child, he had a multitude of issues that a cartel member couldn't handle by herself. My father definitely wasn't the person who raised us, or was even remotely present. We learned about my father later on as children, but never as infants or toddlers. My mother didn't want us around his lifestyle until we were more mature.