Jules’s POV
I stopped by the coffee shop that morning, hoping Valerie’s mother and her step-sister Vida would honor my invitation. The morning was still young and I had terminated all my schedule for the morning just to meet with them.
I wasn’t doing all of this because I wanted to make peace with them, it was because I wanted them to pay for everything they did to Valerie.
I had seen the pain in Valerie’s eyes last night and how she felt hunted by her own family because of the actions I took. At a point, I felt I could have just allowed everything to slip away, but then, I thought it was the only way to make Valerie happy.
Before now, I thought she would never find out that I had a transaction history with her stepfather. Although I invented that connection because of how I dislik
