Mac watched the disastrous show play out on screen. He hadn’t expected stellar television, but he also hadn’t thought it would tear down the woman he loved.
“Wait. Don’t run out.”
“I’m not going to stay here and wait for people to ask me how it felt to be portrayed as an i***t on screen.”
As the footage of Gem continued in front of them, Mac’s first thought was that his mother orchestrated this. This was exactly what she’d been hoping for with the antics she’d pulled. “Give me a few minutes. I need to speak with my mother.”
He squeezed Natalie’s hand to reassure her, but her focus remained on the train wreck everyone else was watching. It only took him a few moments to find Gail. She was near the center of the room. Mac took her elbow as he lowered his mouth to speak in her ear. “I nee
