They had reached the garden, and he gave Violet a little nudge toward it. "Now, go fix this, and don't come home until you have," Blake said.
Violet rolled her eyes at him, and Blake turned away and kept walking down the path.
She took a deep breath. She could do that. She took two steps into the garden and then stopped. She would not be able to do that. Flashes of the night before, the things she had said, came back to her. She felt her cheeks heat up. Even if Carl had not been able to hear what she had said, she had still said those things. She was drunk and behaved like an i***t. She swore when she found the person who had adulterated her drink, she was going to end them.
Carl was sitting on a bench in the garden. He glanced up as Violet approached, and for a second she was terrified
