Chapter 179

Emma’s POV

“Hey mom!” I was overfilled with excitement and anticipation.

From what Chase briefed me, we had a whole lot of fun stuff to do.

It was quite risky that we were taking such a break from school, but it’s nothing Chase’s dads connections couldn’t fix.

He said that we were gonna have fun, and he was gonna make sure of it.

“How are you, sugar?” She asked. It’d been a minute since I saw my mom that happy.

“Never been better.” I replied a little too enthusiastically, I was so happy to be away.

Somewhere no one knew me.

“You look it.” She smiled. “Why did you not call me? Forgot about your woman in all your boy dramas?” Unfortunately for me, the phone was on speaker, and Chase wasn’t far. Which definitely meant he was paying more than the usual attention.

“Come on, mom!” I chided. “It didn’t exactly end the way we thought.” I was trying to be as cryptic as possible, if I had my way, I’d have avoided the whole topic all