The Price of Upbringing

Piper was stuffed and happy, chattering and laughing the whole way home.

Hazel couldn't help but be lifted by her bubbly, adorable energy, and she started to feel much better.

Sure, Declan's behavior had hurt her, but it made her realize all those childhood feelings she'd held onto weren't worth much after all.

Thinking it over, she found she wasn't really heartbroken. Back at the mansion that day