CHAPTER ELEVEN
Driving back to the chateau, Cassie had to force herself to focus on the road. Her fragmented thoughts were spinning in a hundred different directions. She couldn’t stop replaying the scene in her mind. How easy it had been to shout those vicious words to the children while anger boiled inside her. How shocked the onlookers had been, gesturing at her as if she were the evil one.
Their disapproval would be nothing compared to what she could expect when they arrived home.
Ella was huddled silently in the back seat, sucking her thumb. Cassie peered into the rearview mirror, watching her in concern.
“Cassie, stop quick, we’re going to crash,” Antoinette squeaked, startled out of her usual coolness.
Cassie wrenched her attention back to the road, stomping on the brakes to av
