Ava’s POV
“We can handle this as a team, and you can go ahead and fill in your husband and the kids,” Lucy said, her voice all silky and calm, placing a hand right on my shoulder—a gutsy move if there ever was one, especially after she’d been draping herself all over Liam like she had some kind of claim, her fingers easing his shirt off as if he belonged to her.
I just stood there, locking eyes with her, my thoughts swirling in chaos, desperately wishing Steve was around to slice right through her nonsense. But nope, it was just me, stuck facing off with the woman who’d branded me a w***e for allegedly hooking up with Steve out in the woods, her vicious rumor wrecking my life, and now here she was acting all chummy. Words escaped me, my pulse racing hard, flashes of Liam’s hands on me—in
