EVE
I got home faster than I probably should've been driving. My hands were still trembling on the wheel when I pulled up to the driveway. My affair with Roman was discovered?
I opened the front door expecting to find Courtney or Mom berating me at the door, or something like that. But instead... There she was. My mother. Sitting in the living room with a man I'd never seen before.
He was older. Not gray-haired old, but grown-man-who-should-know-better old. His hair slicked back, wearing a suit that screamed money and power. And the way he looked at my mother—no, scratch that—the way he looked at me when I walked in… made my stomach twist.
"Eve," my father said from across the room. His tone was clipped, sharp. "Sit."
That single word—sit—froze me in place. My father was t
