I screamed. I lost control. I demanded answers like a woman possessed.
"How could you do this to me?"
"I treated you both like family! I would've ripped my own heart out and laid it bare for you. How could you betray me like this?"
Jackson scrambled for the sheets, yanking them over his body. The color drained from his face in an instant.
"You... why are you here? I thought you were helping your father with the company today."
Millicent shrank behind him, eyes rimmed with red, looking fragile and pitiful.
"I'm sorry, Lucille. I didn't mean for this to happen. Jackson and I are truly in love. Please don't blame him..."
Truly in love?
I laughed like I'd just heard the most absurd joke in the world. Laughed until tears spilled down my cheeks and blurred my vision so badly I couldn't even make out the faces of the two people in front of me.
"Millicent, how dare you say something like that?"
"Have you no shame? If you wanted a man, any man, I would've set you up. Why did you have to steal mine?"
I lunged at her and slapped her across the face, but Jackson shoved me away.
He pulled Millicent behind him, brow furrowed, his voice dripping with impatience and cold indifference.
"Are you done?"