Chapter 27

NADINE

Dinner at my father’s house was as excruciating as I expected.

I sat at the long mahogany dining table, half-listening as Levi and my father droned on about investments, stocks, and God knows what else. It was the people that had me lose interest in things that were a part of my daily life. Their voices blurred into background noise, my mind slowly numbing from the sheer boredom.

Instead of