The Price of Her Indifference

moment ago filled with grandmotherly concern, was now a mask of cold fury. The hand hol

ispered, her voice trembling. She shoved the

her on the phone. Now. I don' t care what she' s doing o

eemed to be in Sophia' s shadow, fumb

ftening slightly. "Ethan, I am so, so sorry.

spreading through my chest. "It won'

nsisted, though her voice lacked

my lips. "Is she? I' m

e was off. She and Mark were probably at some ridiculously expensive restaurant, enjoying a cand

ing back through the

was coming back, you were the first person I called. You told me she was

er hands, avoiding my gaze. "I thought she was, E

. That' s the only reason she' s here. He left her six years ago, and she' s been o

e. "Lily was

s sons grabbed my arm to steady me. The fluorescent lights of the waiting roo

er loved me. She had likely never even liked me. I was

upid, stubborn flame I had kept alive for five years. I had believed her lies, her promi

years of trying to make it on his own in Europe, had come crawling back to her, brok

s to be managed, inconvenience