CHAPTER 17

"How dare she hang up on me!" Milton yelled, nearly throwing his phone across the room before Olivia stopped him.

He couldn’t believe it—Charlotte had never hung up on him before, but now she had done it without a shred of remorse.

Olivia gently took the phone from his hand. "Calm down. I don’t understand why you’re so mad. She only said those things because she was angry at me for waking up."

"We're divorced, Olivia," he responded, his voice tight with anger. "She has no right to speak to you like that. You're her sister, but she’s always been mean to you."

He looked away, and a sneer of satisfaction crossed Olivia’s face. Now that Milton had brought up their relationship as sisters, she saw her chance to say what she had been holding back.

"Charlotte didn’t come home last night," Olivia began, feigning concern. "I wonder who she’s staying with now. At the store, she was with three men. They even bought out the whole store just so I couldn’t buy anything."

Milton's head snapped towar