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Unfortunately, her head didn’t explode when I said that, though it sure did look like it was going to

Her eyes flickered to the diaer “You’ve already ”

Though I’d been content to stay seated, not needing bullshit power plays, I now stood “You really don’t want to talk about that withto tell her the truth about what her son had done, but I doubted she would believe e

“What do you need this time?” Her upper lip curled back “Your mother’s already dead, so you can’t need someone to foot the medical bills”

My heart jumped into my throat “Don’t you talk about her,” I hissed

She tilted her head, s coldly now that she’d foundof a disease that is the consequence of a loose life Your ive her daughter a stable life To pay for her own medical bills”

Her eyes flickered over me

“You ed to sleep your way up the ladder, but you’re exactly the saet what you deserve eventually,” she snarled “I’er that I don’t see you for everything you are”

She didn’t give me a chance to respond, defend myself, or more importantly, my mother No, she turned on her sensible heel and walked out of my roomy office

If it were Pete’s father who had made the same visit, said the exact same words, I wouldn’t have even blinked Every ould’ve bounced offa bruise

But because it was Diana, it cut Right through to my heart I’d liked her She’d made me feel welcoy that I’d yearned for since I lost uard doith her

That was my mistake

I’d thought that she was a good woht that because she was so kind, so loving, it was tragic that she loved such a terrible man But it turned out, she loved a terrible man because she was a terrible woman Deep down, underneath the Ralph Lauren and the Jo Malone, she was rotten

And because she was a woman, she kne to hit, how to slice, how to cripple et so much as a retort before she left I ached to be cruel, ain That he’d died without honor, shitting hi forthat foolish