7
Meg
Mom’s eyes narrowed into slits so thin as she glared at Levi that I wondered how she could see out through them. “How dare you show your face here. First, you break my sweet Meg’s heart by abandoning her, and now you injure her daughter?”
The urge to kick my mother in the shin was nearly overwhelming. I’d always kept up a tough façade when it came to Levi’s abrupt departure. After I’d told him to follow his dreams of becoming a country star and he’d actually done it, I’d refused to let him see how much it hurt me that he hadn’t chosen to stay with me.
The one thing I’d grasped on to in that dark time of loneliness was my pride. By the stunned look Levi was giving me, it was obvious that my act had been convincing. But now my mother had blown my cover and revealed how upset I’d be
