"Riley stays with me." Jade's eyes widened. "What? No!" she cried out. "I'm her mother; she should be with me." A small and sinister smile made its way to Austin's face. "Wrong way to phrase it, Jade. She should be with you if you want her to. Not because you're her mother." Anger burned in his eyes. "How will you even deal with all this? You're just going to pack up the house, move to Delano, get settled in a new place, adjust to your new job, enroll Riley at a new school, and deal with the fact that she doesn’t want to be there?"
