“Ding!”
The sudden ringtone snapped Leah out of her thoughts. She balanced the bouquet in one hand and answered the call from an unfamiliar number with the other.
As soon as the line connected, Martin’s furious voice thundered through, “Leah! You actually sent the court to seize The Evans Family’s property! How did I raise a daughter like you? If I’d known you’d defy your parents like this, I’d rather have let you freeze to death back then!”
“Don’t talk to Leah like that,” her mother, Octavia, interjected, taking over the call with a gentle tone. “Leah, you know how your father is. Don’t mind him. The court seized several of our houses and took a lot of cash a few days ago. We really don’t have any money left now.”
“Your brother also recently lost a ton of money in that Victory race b
