Chapter 171

[Cordelia]

The phone in my pocket shakes. Setting the envelope down, I pull it out to see it is my mother.

"What on earth does she want?" I scowl. Pressing a button, I send it to voicemail. She's just going to have to wait. I don't want to hear from her right now.

The phone vibrates again. This time it is Angelica. She rarely calls me. Maybe I should see what they want.

My thumb hovers above the answer button. I don't want to talk to her either. She has caused me enough pain with her fake amnesia. What the hell was that all about anyway? I mean, I guess I did the same thing to her on the island, but I was trying to survive while she and her psycho boyfriend tried to steal my uterus.

Come to think about it, why did she pretend not to remember the last five years? It doesn't add up. I'm missing something important.

There is an incessant knocking on the front door of the studio. Anyone who should be here has a key. Who would be pounding so forcibly?

Placing the envelope back on my dre