"What is there left to say?" Jacob asks her quickly. "You blackmailed Cassie into leaving town; it's like you were playing God with our lives, Isabelle."

Isabelle feels her eyes swell with water. "I know what I did was wrong, okay?" she admits to him. "I saw a chance to rid us of Cassie for good, and I took it."

"You know what's crazy about all of this?" Jacob asks her as they lock eyes. "The other day, when we were in court at Daisy's trial, you were horrified by all the terrible things you heard about your father, and hearing what you did, you're no better then he was, Isabelle. In fact, you're a chip off the old block!"