"If not Kate, I would have married you. It's a shame where you ended up. You would have made an excellent actress. I can see myself going to plays to watch you but it is better to have you here all to myself. Perhaps I will keep you until you bore me. You are like a pet I can use to get away from the outside world. My mother would have loved you," Simon said, looking back on his childhood.
"She always spoke of wanting a daughter. You are the perfect daughter to listen to her. Should we pretend to be siblings?" Simon asked, looking down at Bella with excitement. "We can speak about how cruel our mother was. How she would punish us if we did not answer her questions right or if we missed a step in our dance lessons. How we both wanted to crush her throat and watch the life leave her body."
