Chapter Twenty-One
Milo
I couldn’t get out of that office fast enough as my world imploded. That f*****g woman. There I was, in love with Violet Blake, dreaming of our happy ever after and my mother managed to throw another incendiary device into my life as it was revealed that she’d left us and had another child.
When Dad got home he thundered into my room to bawl me out for how I’d spoken to Violet.
“I was in f*****g shock. I am in f*****g shock. The words Alice Waite are dead to me. What if this kid wants to track her down and then he brings her back to Willowfield? Have you thought about that?”
“Your mother can come back to Willowfield and see us anytime she so feels like it because we haven’t moved, Milo. We’re still in the same place we always were. If she wanted to come back, s
