CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

CAUGHT IN THE ACT…

To celebrate their win, Lilliana and Daren along with their friends had regrouped back at the Barnette residence. They sat by the pool, and Tessa being her usual self had gone and brought out a bottle of wine from the family's wine cellar. Out of all four of them, Lilliana had only two glasses of the fruity yet slightly bitter red liquid but they were enough to get her drunk like she had actually drunk the entire bottle… thanks to her low tolerance of alcohol. She was a blubbering mess and stumbled all over the furniture.

Standing at the door, Lilliana said “See you tomorrow” waving a goodbye at her friends and waited until their car was out of sight before walking back inside the house. She went into the living room and got her phone from the coffee table. She dialled her father's number and put the phone over her ear as it rang, waiting for him to pick up.

“Hey princess” the man picked up after the third ring, sounding out of breath.

“Hey dad, we won the competiti