Isabelle decided to sue her second husband for a lie to receive his estate, but the tables turned when her daughter decided to testify against her and not her stepfather.
Isabelle had two daughters, Sandra, 20, and Linda, 16, with her first husband, Thomas. When they first met, Thomas had high hopes and dreams for himself and his family.
However, he once made a bad investment that lost him most of his money. He ended up drinking heavily, and his financial situation caused him to treat his family badly as well.
After a while, Isabelle had enough. She did not want to live a poor life, so she kicked her husband out and he never showed up in their lives ever again.
While her children were teenagers, Isabelle taught them to end up with a rich man. “I made a mistake marrying your father for love. He was too ambitious and look where that brought him. You must marry rich men so that you can be taken care of like princesses,” she would say.
That all changed when he met a man named Brendan at a local coffee shop. Brendan approached her and found her beautiful, but what caught her eye was how he was dressed neatly in a suit and tie as he carried a briefcase. He must be rich, she thought to herself.
Brendan courted her and took her to all the fancy restaurants in their area. When he asked for her hand in marriage, she quickly said yes. She believed that he would be their ticket to a secure life.
Brendan embraced Isabelle’s kids as his own. He worked day and night to provide for their needs, but Isabelle always wanted more. She didn’t want her needs taken cared of, she wanted to experience luxuries as well.
Meanwhile, her children were able to enjoy their teenage years thanks to Brendan. He would shower them with presents and give in to their requests. As he loved them as his own, he would drive Sandra and Linda to school and pick them up whenever they had places to go. He would also attend all of the games, recitals, and parent-teacher conferences that the girls had.
Sandra didn’t enjoy being with her stepfather because he always wanted to spend time watching movies and eating together. She found him clingy and didn’t enjoy the idea of him thinking they were a family. “I want to go shopping, not watch a movie,” Sandra would say, refusing his invitation time and time again.
Meanwhile, Linda would always oblige. She saw how hard he worked for their family, and she appreciated it. After all, he didn’t need to – he was their stepfather, and it’s supposed to be Isabelle’s responsibility to provide for them.
Whenever Linda felt like Sandra and Isabelle were giving Brendan a hard time,...
