Mira Reckoning: Love, Lies and Inheritance
then I watched her face change the moment the surname registered, her eyes sharpened, and she leaned forward and rested her elbow on her knee, “Westwood? Adrian Westwood?”
“Yes.”
“How?” she said it simply and directly, her eyes fixed on me, “How did Mira, our Mira, end up with Adrian Westwood? She left here and went straight to him? How does that even happen?”
I reached over and pulled up the news article on my phone and held it out to her.
She took it and stared at the screen for a long moment, the picture of Mira in a wedding dress beside Adrian.
“How,” Julie said again, quieter this time, more to herself than to me.