Chapter 62

“Evelyn, what are you doing? Why has this man who has been sitting in his car outside my house come in and said he’s with the security team?”

The disappointment in her mother’s voice cut her deeply. And she had called her by her full name.

Eve sat heavily on a chair at the kitchen table and looked down in shame. Her sex life had caused this. Her inability to say no to Roman. She would never be able to lift her head high again.

“I’m sorry mum. Someone at work recognised me and... I didn’t think it would get that far. I thought I could just hide here and the reporters would go away.”

“Well, because of that I had to cancel my shift last night and you know we can’t afford to do that,” her mother said. “And if you’re hiding there it means you’re not getting paid, either.”

She wasn’t going to tell her mother she had been fired from the restaurant job.

“I have some money, I’ll transfer_”

“I’m not taking that man’s money,” Tessa cut in.

“It’s