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“So find a different lifestyle,” I snapped as thoughts of walking through seedy neighborhoods to get to school and having no lights fro back to me All the while, my mother had enjoyed her posh existence because of my father’s money

“Do not be disrespectable, Aria Lynne”

“Okay, so find a new husband One who can afford you”

She crossed her arically enhanced chest, as she was prone to do when she wanted to tell me to watch my mouth Maybe it was because I was older and disassociated from her that she didn’t press this time

“Men don’t oirls your age A little tidbit you should tuck away”

“Then I don’t knohat to tell you”

She gavee Finally, she said, “I just need a little supple you recently pulled off, I wouldn’t think it’d be asking too ave birth to you If you understood the expense of Botox, cheruntleo that far

A part ofto worry about—my mother was a very beautiful woman But I’d witnessed this ploy before It started out all woe is me and morphed into Bitchville in the blink of an eye

I knew to tread lightly “I really can’t help you, Mother Money’s been tight for me as well”

She had the audacity to scoff “Please, you don’t attract the sort ofwithout the money to back it up”

I didn’t feed into her theory That didn’t stop her fro on it

Dropping her arave me the real-deal Kathryn DeMille “Do you know that I never once mentioned the names of the men I had affairs hile your father was on his tours?”

Unease flitted throughwhat, exactly?”

“Of course, I didn’t want to implicate anyone They’d all been contenders in their time So rooh to silently point out what a disappoint the opinion that I wasn’t on par with the men she’d slept with or the women she associated with Like I fell short in her eyes the way my dad did

My blood boiled I didn’t ed me But to be cruel toward my father when he’d been so in love with her, so supportive And so devastated when he’d learned the truth about her … That irked the hell out of me