Struggling to support Phoenix Golding, Jacqueline Spann watched Clayton Xavier's retreating back with disappointment. She knew with perfect clarity that things between them could never go back to the way they were.
She had gone to great lengths to feign ignorance, striving to be the person she thought he wanted. It was all to keep Clayton Xavier from discovering the sordid affair between her mother and Storm Xavier, not to mention the existence of that bastard child, Ulysses Spann.
She had worked so hard to hide everything, and now it had all been for nothing.
A sharp pain stabbed at Jacqueline Spann's heart, and resentment flashed in her eyes. Phoenix Golding was a dead weight pressing down on her. 'I just want to throw this woman on the ground and walk away,' she thought.
'Why couldn't my mother be Phoebe Huxley?'
