Chapter 28

ELLIE

I breathed a sigh of relief as I followed Aiden’s mother to wherever she was taking me. There was no telling why she was suddenly all over me at that point. I hadn’t told her anything that sounded like an interest in arts, but there she was, dragging me along like I had been bugging her ever since about arts.

“You’re surely going to love all of this…” she said enthusiastically as she was taking me to a part of the house I had never been to before. It almost felt like she was pulling me away to give Aiden all the room he needed with Gina.

Or was she?

I was short of what to believe at that point, even though that suspicion was the one that blared loudest in my head at that point. It just had to be it. She probably knew who Gina was and her history with her son.

Having an encounter with Gina was the last thing I wanted at that point, as I was still reeling from the ridiculous conditions she had handed me the last time we had met. But then, why had she come as far as coming over to