ElenaI walked downstairs first, and exactly fifteen minutes later, Ashton and Jax finally joined me at the breakfast table. At that point, it was only my father and Monica sitting there, and something about the way Dad was looking at her today felt...different. Usually, he’d be gawking at her or staring with that shameless look a man gave his mistress. And no, I wasn’t going to sugarcoat that description just to make my father sound slightly less disgusting than he actually was.He was a bastard.So I might as well describe him like one.Nothing more, nothing less.My mother still hadn’t come downstairs.So for a while, it was just Dad, Monica, me, Ashton, and Jax. Dad had acknowledged me exactly once—a dry little good morning—before immediately returning his attention to Monica like the rest of us had ceased to exist. Monica, on the other hand, barely responded to him. A word here. Another there. Her attention remained almost entirely on her breakfast, yet somehow Dad continued talk
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