GWEN POV
What was the saying about always doing the same things and expecting something different? How had I thought that Nolan wouldn't lash out at me again? Granted, this time, he didn't call me names, but the idea that he thought I would be in cahoots with my stepmother to get money from him was ludicrous. Hadn't I spent the last few months telling them I didn't want anything from him?
He asked me to explain to him what was going on, but what was the point? This was a pattern, one I didn't want to be a part of anymore.
After I shut the door and moved back into the house, my father appeared, clearly having heard it all.
"Why didn't you tell him you had nothing to do with Mira? Or tell him the type of woman Mira was?” he asked.
"What would be the point?"
"Because the man was despera
