Chapter 26Thomas
I won’t need my backstabbing bodyguard today. Enjoy the day off, Mr. Jeffries.
The text message I woke up to from Bridget cut me like a knife. I hadn’t gotten any sleep last night after I told my mother I would pick Lacey up and take her to school from her place. I needed the night to think through things and process what had just happened, and I didn’t want my daughter to see me like that.
How the hell could she possibly think I would’ve told anyone? I brought her around my daughter, for f**k’s sake. That was a massive thing for me, especially with how Lacey took to her, and I would never do anything to jeopardize that. Lacey thought the world of Bridget, and it would be hard enough trying to explain to her why Bridget’s name wasn’t actually Bridget. Did she actually t
