Dinner Ambush

I stayed in the bathroom long after my mom left. I wasn’t doing anything in there—I just didn’t want to be in the same room with her while she kept trying to convince me to break up with Dario. That wasn’t happening.

I had a plan. And the plan was going to work. I hadn’t expected Dario himself to be the obstacle. I knew he loved me. I felt it. In the way he kissed me, the way he touched me, how hi