Chapter 219

“I guess I’ll skip this time. You guys go ahead and enjoy.”

Mary was clearly not pleased. “It seems like you all don’t care about me anymore. Just because I’m getting older, everyone thinks they can push me around.”

Leanne couldn’t help but laughed. “How am I pushing you around? Don’t be so stubborn.”

“You said you were working late yesterday, and today, when you’re not, you still won’t come over. It feels like you’re just brushing me off.”

Leanne had no choice but to lay it all out. “Curtis and I are getting a divorce. It’s not right for me to come back now.”

“What does your divorce have to do with me?” Mary’s logic was crystal clear. “So what if you’re divorced? This isn’t your in-laws’ house anymore; it’s your home. What’s wrong with coming home for a meal?”

Mary was quick with her words, and Leanne found herself speechless.

“Fine, how about I take you out tomorrow, would that be okay?”

“I don’t want to go out with you.” Mary’s voice turned sullen. “You couldn’t even come to visit me during the holidays. It’s like you’ve forgotten about me.”

Leanne scratched her brow in frustration.

Maddox Richardson took the phone, his serious voice coming

up here. This is your home. It’s the holidays, come

later, after freshening up and changing, Leanne headed downstairs and got into the car back to the Richardson

buzzing with messages

her hometown because she couldn’t find a ticket back. Her mom had set up a blind date for her on Christmas Day, inviting the guy over to their

now, she was venting in the

ranting. “Your mom setting you up on a blind date on Christmas Day? She’s out of

a photo of the

immediately, “Hold on. Forget what I just said. You’re not

was surprised. “Austin? What’s he doing in

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here and he came to visit with friends, ended up getting dragged into this

“Talk about fate, huh?”

my pajamas, hadn’t even washed my face or did my hair. When my mom mentioned a blind date, I chomped down on three cloves of garlic, hoping to scare him off. Now I’ve been sitting here, grinning like an idiot for half an hour. Never been

couldn’t stop laughing, “Thanks for the first

had no idea who Austin was, panicked. “Who? Why am I

short:

that just consisted of her hysterical laughter.

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