She could no longer care and she did not have the mental capacity to let herself be distracted by that incident. All she wanted was to meet her mother.

“Nothing happened, really. The idea occurred to me all of a sudden…”

Before she could finish her sentence, Brendan grabbed her face, exuding displeasure with his overbearing presence. “Deirdre, are you aware that I can see that you’re lying every time you do it? You’re really disobedient, which makes me think that you just don’t want to meet O