Chapter 35: I need to be skinny, like Skye.

At the cafe.

“What’s wrong Antonia?”

Bridget sees right through the smile I'm trying to put on.

I keep that smile on my face as I pick up the cup of coffee before me and take a sip. I respond calmly with a shrug, “Nothing’s wrong.”

Bridget gives me a look that shows she doesn’t believe that, and I didn’t expect her to either. She’s known me as far back as college. She was there when I got married to Malachi and she experienced the whirlwind of emotions that was me being with him. She always told me to leave him, and I always ran to her when Malachi started mistreating me again after I refused. I know she has questions she wants to ask, but she won’t, not before I've told her what’s wrong, and I feel a slight twinge of shame when I finally give in, “It’s something that happened at the mansion Bridget, it’s nothing serious.”

She nods understandingly and smirks, responding, “No doubt it has something to do with his royal highness Malachi Finn.”

A half-amused smirk forms on my lips too.