Chapter 75

Kel frowns as though I’m being an inconvenience. “Vesper—”

“No. You don’t get to dump all this on me as if it's my fault she left me when I was five. You've just succeeded in making me feel worse than I’ve felt in my entire life.”

“Good,” he says. “Maybe you’ll come to your senses.”

I glare. “You’re good at making assumptions, right? Then here’s a thought. Maybe my mom married you—a young man—to p