To the other people who don't know her, Harper might appear to be a model of patience, a woman who simply endures the slings and arrows of life without retaliating.
Those who crossed her path in the past sometimes misinterpret her quiet manner as weakness, branding her a pushover for her inability to react to nasty remarks or mocking laughter with any kind of revenge. They failed to grasp the truth that lay beneath her composed exterior.
What few understood was that Harper didn't opt in to the typical concept of revenge. Rather than planning payback, she used a far more complex tactic: making sure those who had offended her, who had ridiculed or underestimated her, were unable to function without her in their life; she made them so dependent on her.