Chapter 20

“Excuse me?” I said.

Brianna walked to a nearby chair and sat down on it before responding to me. “You’re excused, Jade. You and your brat.”

“Don’t you dare insult my son!”

She sighed. “What did you expect? That you would disappear into thin air and suddenly show up after four years, expecting everything to remain the same?”

“I didn’t disappear, you sold me into slavery!” I fired back at her.

“Is that Jade?”

I turned around and saw Dominic standing behind me. He was even more handsome than I remembered.

“It is you!” He said, grinning happily. “I don’t understand. They said you were dead.”

My blood froze. “Who told you that?”

“I thought you died,” Brianna said quickly from her spot inside the library. “I saw someone attacking you on that day that I tried to help you escape from Apex Wood. I was afraid for my life, so I ran away.”

I silenced her with my eyes. “You shameless liar. Is that what you told them?”

“That