Chapter 20 – Talia’s POV
I stared at the woman sprawled across the bed, waiting for her to start make sense. When the confusion on my face didn’t fade, she let out a loud, dramatic sigh like I was the problem here.
“Ashborne,” she said, sitting up slightly and gesturing toward herself. “As in Vermont Ashborne. You know, Vermont’s sister.”
She paused, then wrinkled her nose. “Well, step-sister, technically. Which, honestly, you can probably tell, because I’m not nearly as stuck up as the rest of his family.”
I said nothing.
“His actual sister?” she went on, already getting into it. “Oh God, she’s worse than him. I mean, I didn’t even think that was possible, but somehow she managed it.”
She kept talking, hands moving as she went on like she’d been waiting all day to complain about the
