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The Surrender
Peggy observed Helena’s facial expressions, posture and body language. She was trying to study all forms of Helena’s non-verbal communication to see if she expressed any regret, remorse, concern anything vaguely resembling a humanistic reaction to what she was reading.
Peggy saw nothing in her daughter’s demeanor and when she looked into her cold steel blue green eyes there was just emptiness. She was devoid of feelings. Not even a tear. The woman sitting before her was a complete sociopath which only served to reinforce what she’d made up her mind to do.
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“I hope you can you understand my concern about leaving the future of the company in your hands Helena? We are at cross purposes. We are moral opposites. We don’t share any core values. You don’t believe or embrace the mission and vision of the Peabody works or the Peabody name. I thought I could overlook all this and leave everything to you just because it’s your birthright but that is not the future that I want for the Peabody companies.
I can’t trust my legacy to you. I’m concerned at how I will be remembered when I’m gone. That may sound conceited and self-important but it’s not. I simply want a successor that believes and lives by the doctrine that your father and I have set forth for our company even if we didn’t live up to it in our personal lives. I know that sounds hypocritical considering we never held you to these standards before but I’m hoping to change that. I want to establish a tradition of giving and living up to a greater value and a higher purpose. I don’t want the Peabody name associated with corruption, dishonesty, fraudulence, treachery, deceitfulness, disloyalty, infidelity, and betrayal.
If I don’t have any grandchildren it will end with you Helena. Do you want your picture next to that description in the history books? If it weren’t for your father’s intervention on your behalf that is what would have become of the Peabody name. As it is we haven’t come out totally unscathed but I’d like to preserve what we have left so it ends with me.”
“Why are you doing this mother?”
“I told you. It’s because I love you.”
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I dont trust Helena. I see trouble for Bette and Tina.
I am sure Helena will find a way to cause Bette some hell..Maybe not right now but eventually she will
Helena is so cold. She will cause trouble for all.
This Helena seems to be more than arrogant and selfish. She seems to be a sociopath. And one with money to wreak havoc on others w/o any consequences unless she runs out of funds. She’ll probably want to destroy Bette b/c of sheer jealousy that Bette has her mother’s heart. Sickos like Helena aren’t happy and don’t want others to be happy either.
Wow. it was a really deep section, full of emotions.
I think Pegg last attempt to get closer to her daughter was really sad.
Helena is a true sociopath Well that says it all. and unfortunately there is truth, the way she treated people well in the show …
very few writers were able to characterize her a kind and caring woman worthy of love, which is a pity.
I’m like the rest of us. I feel that Helena will be wrong Bette’s life. I hope we’re wrong!
I don’t for one minute believe Helena is just going to let Bette take what she believes is hers im sorry but look out bette Helena is going to be on the war path pps.
Phew! Peggy said everything I had to say for your daughter, and I don’t trust Helena, I don’t think she’s going to let Bette receive the attention of Peggy.
Grand chapter.
Gosh, you have written Helena just as she is, the cold-hearted, treacherous bitch that she has become. I can’t imagine anyone doing the things that Peggy enumerated and think that her father betrayed her by not destroying the documents. Maybe one day she will discover just what she has done to everyone, hopefully she will discover this before she is physically hurt or put in jail for being the miscreant she has become. Feel sorry for Peggy and anyone else that she becomes involved with in the future because she does not think she has done anything wrong to anyone and she will continue to live the way she been doing and continue to do the things to other women that she has in the past. Hopefully when she encounters Bette she will not be able to hurt her. This is a great story. Enjoying it.
I hate when Helena interfere with Bette and Tina relationship, but other than that she’s my next favorite I loovvveee Helena!