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“Well, he has a shitty way of showing it.” I speared her
with a look that said I wasn’t falling for her bullshit. “So do
you. You’re his mother. You should have done a better job.”
“I know,” she nodded solemnly, “but it’s too late now,
isn’t it?”
“It’s never too late.”
“For Maddox, it is. I just wished–”
“What?” I asked, my heart tripping over itself, when she
fell silent.
“I wished I could go back and change the past. But
then…”
“Then?”
She smiled and patted my hand. “He probably wouldn’t
have met you then.”
That was a strange way of putting it and an easy way out
for her. I was about to tell her what exactly I thought of
such a shitty excuse, when another voice joined us.
“Savannah,” a sing-song voice called out. “There you
are, Dear.”
A woman joined us in the corner, looking just as prim
and proper as Maddox’s mother. Another elite wife.
She barely spared me a glance and completely ignored
my existence. I internally rolled my eyes, but I was starting
to get used to it. I didn’t have a rich family last name
attached to my first name, so I didn’t matter in their world.
Fine by me. I didn’t want to be friends with these stuckup,
trophy wives anyway.
When I tried to slither away unnoticed, Savannah
grasped my elbow and pulled me back. Damn it, why was
she being so attentive tonight?
“Lila, meet Anna Carmichael. A close friend of mine.”
Carmichael.
Anna smiled a fake, plastic smile, but I didn’t even
notice… didn’t breathe…
Carmichael.