Alexi tried to concentrate on what her mother was saying. Seeing Kris so unexpectedly had thrown her. She’d put her walls up so quickly and thoroughly she’d thought she’d gotten over the woman. But here she stood, not minutes after seeing her and she couldn’t stop thinking about her. Wanted to call her and ask her to come over, to just come back to her. Nothing had really changed. At least not for her. But Kris was dating someone, Maddie, the woman who’d acted like a child when she’d seen Magdalene. Kris had walked out on her, and things had just gone to hell from there. Her mother’s man had shown up, told her what to say, and what they would be putting out there. She’d argued, tried to change what they said, but it had been done. She’d gone to the apartment to find Kris, only to learn she
