CHAPTER 281

Nobody had recognized Talia at the craft store and she’d happily purchased several miniature kits thanks to Carter’s credit card. Parker offered to buy them for her, but she declined. He was already doing so much for her. She couldn’t possibly expect him to pay for her new hobby as well.

It wasn’t as if Talia didn’t have money. She had a lot of it, but it was all under the control of her father, and he could track any purchases she made. That was another thing Anthony was going to look into. Just how did Mark Bennett get so much control over her life?

Talia knew it was partly her fault for not taking more interest in the ‘business’ side of her life, but to be honest, it had never occurred to her. She’d been acting since she was a kid and, of course, Mark had authority over all the contracts and whatnot. The problem was, that she had never changed that when she became an adult. It was part laziness and part ignorance. Talia had trusted that her father would do the right thing