Chapter 14

Justin Casson had helped me a great deal during the move. Combined with the care he had shown my mom, I owed him a meal. I picked a bright, sunny day to go out, only to have the rotten luck of running into Benedict Cole. "Mandy, I admit that I pursued you with an ulterior motive. But I married you because I fell in love with you. "I treated you coldly after we got married because my mom was always telling me that my dad had lived under your mom's thumb. If you put me under your thumb too, she...