Chapter 27

Chad

“Mom?” I tried to sit up, but I couldn’t do so, thanks to the hospital equipment that had me clipped to the bed. My eyes went wide. How could she have seen Nikki? This was doom for us. What was the point of everything? How could Nikki have been so careless?

She heaved a sigh, “I know it was her. I met her gaze as soon as I walked into the building, and as if she was trying to confirm my suspicions, she ran off without wasting any more time.” She paused to look at me for a while. “Chad, why would you lie to me?” She didn’t sound as angry as I expected her to be. I knew there was no point in attempting to hide the truth from her anymore.

I hadn’t thought anyone would be able to recognize Nikki if they saw her without the expensive makeup from that day. She looked nothing like the same person, in my opinion, and the mere fact that my mother, of all people, noticed the woman was everything. She wasn’t that pretty, was she?

“Mom, I have a lot of explaining to