CONNOR’S POV
Walking back into the party with Sophia, as we reached the entrance to the sitting room downstairs where the party was being held, my head was destabilized, not by anything else but by the last words Maria uttered to me.
There was something about Maria tonight that made me wonder. I had no clue what it was or where the confidence came from, and it hit me hard like a kick to the gut when she expressed how much I disgusted her.
I had never had anyone say such things to me before, and it struck a chord within me that brought me into total speechlessness.
“Babe, we are not supposed to walk out like this with our arms locked. Your father might complain that we are about to jeopardize what he had already set up,” Sophia said, drawing me out of my thoughts.
“You are right, but b
