Chapter 27
Third Person
The catastrophe unfolding inside Annika’s penthouse was fit for the screen. The egregious scream directed at the show’s main star had the Silvertons up in arms, and they assembled in defensive formation in the middle of the living room. On the other side, three brave souls had the guts to throw down the gauntlet and rallied around the belligerent woman bulldozing her way into enemy territory. The sudden standoff commenced in a fraction of a second, with both sides ready to wage war, adding to the melodrama of the soap opera that now occupied Annika’s world.
The woman was none other than Annika’s soon-to-be former mother-in-law, flanked by her husband, Jeffrey’s younger brother, and a woman Annika recognized from family photos that Jeffrey had previously shared on
