CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Alexia's POV

I've resumed work fully and I have to admit I am probably the first person to ever prefer spending the whole day at work than staying in that wretched house. At least at work, I can pretend everything is okay and I don't have to worry about Ethan's parents. Most especially his mother. That woman is after my sanity and I just don't know how long it'll take before I finally break.

Luckily for me, her insults are only for when Ethan isn't around when Ethan is with us she sticks to simple backhanded compliments or rude questions she tags as just being curious.

“You need a break from that house,” Bridget says after I narrate how terrible staying at the Blackwood's mansion has been.

“I'm already sick of it,” I tell her. Ethan's mother just keeps finding new ways to make me hate staying there. I still don't know why she dislikes me so much because she can't be so bitter for no reason.

“At least you get to live in a nice mansion,” she says, trying to console me.

“You know I do