DARE-TO-LOVE-TRUTH-AND-DARE-DUET-COLLECTION-by-Lylah-James-pdfarchive

I got you.
I leveled Brad with a cold stare of my own. This was a
battlefield. Maddox and I on one side, his parents on the
other. Our words didn’t cause any physical wounds, but our
looks and the words spoken were sharper than any knife.
I’d go to war for Maddox.
And this was war.
“Maddox is working really hard,” I started, my eyes
flickering from his father to his mother. “He passed this
semester with high marks.”
Brad looked incredulous. “Oh, did he?”
I held onto my temper and gave them a smile. “Yes. You
should be proud of him since he did it all on his own.”
Savannah perked up. She was obviously trying to break
the ice, but this situation was already too frosty. “That’s
good to hear! Maddox, why didn’t you tell us?”
He tensed, his fork clanking against the plate. “I did.”
Her smile dissolved. “Oh.”
I realized one thing in that moment. Savannah wasn’t
ignoring Maddox’s existence, although it appeared like that
on the outside. But now that I really looked at her, I
realized she was scared of her son. Maddox intimidated
her, and knowing him, he made himself less approachable
around his parents.
Maybe I was wrong. Savannah was trying, but it was too
little… too late.
“We’re done here,” Maddox announced. He stood up,
roughly pushing his chair back and dragging me with him.
“Maddox,” Brad called out after his son, his voice
threatening and so… cold. “You will show respect.”
Maddox wasn’t listening. We were already marching
away. He didn’t stop, even after we were the through the
gates of his house. We walked for an hour, side by side.
There was an unspoken understanding between us as we
walked in silence until we reached Berkshire.