Chapter 58

[MADDOX]

There was no need for me to bother myself. I knew the man who stood behind me better than I knew myself.

“Dad!” I said with a tone so bitter, I hoped he would get the hint and get the fuck off.

Instead, the man chuckled deeply, and I felt my insides cringe and stabbed with thousands of swords altogether.

“I knew you were a pushover but didn’t take you for a coward,” he all but jeered.

I forced myself to turn around as I searched for his disgusting eyes and held back the need to scoff. “I’m all grown up, dad. I don’t have the naïve impulse to prove my worth to anyone anymore.”

“Then why don’t you grow some spine and tell her all about it,” pointing the drink in his hand at where Zara and mom seemed to mingle with some of my aunts he said. “Tell her who Emily was to you…” shifting his gaze back to me, he leaned just a little to whisper into my ear. “…and what the hell happened to her that unfortunate day.”

I knew what he was doing, trying to provoke me so I would lose my shit a