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She resented his control even as she envied it

“I take it you and your mother aren’t close?” Ross asked.

“If you were from here, you wouldn’t even have to ask that.” And Layne wasn’t about to fill him in.

“You haven’t spoken to your mother in almost a year?”

“September twentieth. Nineteen ninety-three.”

If he was surprised, she couldn’t tell. Couldn’t read him in the best of times, let alone when her emotions were jumbled, her thoughts confused.

She prided herself on her ability to see situations…people…clearly. Being unable to do so with him only served to infuriate and, yes, intrigue her. Damn him.

What if her mother had changed her mind and hadn’t wanted to leave her family? What if Layne hadn’t said those things to her that night? What if she’d tried to stop her mother from leaving instead of telling her to go and not come back?

Dear God, what if her mother was dead? And it was all her fault?