Rona Langdon's temper flared. "That wretched Vera Xavier! Does she really think she can climb the social ladder and become a phoenix?"
"I think that's been her plan all along," Cara Preston said with a long sigh. "You know it, Mom. She has no respect for you. If she really manages to get into the Nathan family's good graces, there's no telling how she'll try to get revenge on you."
"Absolutely not!" Rona Langdon slammed her hand on the table, startling her young niece and nephew who were about to ask for candy and toys.
She had switched Vera Xavier with her own biological daughter at birth so that her own child could live a good life, marry into a wealthy family, and she could, in the process, acquire a girl to raise as a future daughter-in-law. But she never imagined that the child she received had also been switched by mistake.
She knew perfectly well how she had treated Vera Xavier, but she remembered even more clearly how Vera had treated her!
