Chapter 190

Violet spent over an hour on the phone.

As soon as she realized the mix-up, she quickly reached out to several news outlets to stir up publicity for herself.

With any luck, tomorrow's front page would feature her dramatic maneuver at the track-she'd be making headlines before the race show even aired.

It was a shame about that video game deal. Otherwise, all three companies could have made a killing with her help this time.

After some coaxing from Violet, Gwyneth finally went to bed. But Victoria's earlier phone call still weighed on her mind her mom had promised her the game, but now she wasn't so sure it would happen.

She tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep even as the clock crept past ten.

Now, she regretted ignoring her mom's call earlier. Was Victoria asleep by now? Or worse, was she angry at being ignored?

Gwyneth clicked on her bedside lamp. Next to her pillow sat the glow-in-the-dark jigsaw puzzle she and Violet had spent the whole evening putting together. It was beautiful.

anything Gwyneth wanted

stay close to Violet, but she couldn't stop thinking about her mom's promise. Torn between the two,

of

meanwhile, had crawled into bed with a book, but exhaustion from a day spent at the racetrack with Osborn quickly caught up to her. After flipping just a

when

answer, she assumed her

grew increasingly upset. If her mom was

thought made her cry. Violet heard her sobbing from the next room and came in to find

wrong, Gwyn? Did something

her tears falling faster. "Mommy didn't answer my

on now, maybe she didn't mean to. But it

the sound of a car engine drifted

her. McNeil, hearing his daughter's cries as

"What's going on?"

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