Chapter 13.
Tessa’s POV.
I sat on a couch on the front patio after dinner. My father was in his study doing some carryover work from the office. He seemed to have made it a point of duty to maximize the investment the Hawthorne family had made into the company. I rolled my eyes at the thought. He was clearly doing that to feel good about marrying Keira off to the disabled heir.
Good thing that’s not my problem, I thought to myself with gleeful excitement.
I picked up my phone and checked to see if my boyfriend from my college days had replied any of the messages I’d left him. I’d been texting him for the past two nights and he’d yet to reply to any of them. It irked me even more that the messages indicated ‘read’.
I wondered why I still tried with him when they were better men out th
