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I’d seen that flicker before, but I hadn’t realized until just now what it meant. Did she know that she looked up when she lied? It was a dead giveaway.
Lily had been coming to the resort more often these days. Too often for my liking. Every time, it was like a slap in the face.
As a kid, the hours I’d spent in this lobby had been at her side.
But she was West’s mother, not mine. Something she’d made abundantly clear.
That's awful!!!!!!!
I wasn’t her son—that had been her choice, not mine.
was nothing more than the bastard child from
Dad’s one-night affair decades ago. Lily had drawn that line.
Four nights. That woman had been staying with Jax for four nights.
Who was she? How long had they been together?
“Tell me a lie,” I said as we kept eating.
doesn’t bother me at all that my doctor is your ex-girlfriend.”
But if I called her Mommy, she’d correct me. She’d tell me to call her Lily.”
was tired of wondering why she couldn’t just love me.
Maybe she’d just been relieved that I was finally leaving.
That the child of the woman who’d ruined her marriage was in another county.
“She made her choice,” I told Sasha. “And I haven’t spoken to her much since.”
But being a mother wasn’t always about blood.
Lily had made the wrong choice. She should have chosen Jax.
“Eddie.” It hurt to say his name. “He’s my little brother.”
“He’s eleven years younger than me.
