CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE - THE CONFRONTATION: ROSALIE KINGSTON'S WAY

Cassy POV

The staff guided Rosalie Kingston Pierre to the chair directly opposite Caleb and me.

Her gaze swept on me frostily. Her look made me feel a little stuffy inside.

Caleb, all the while, kept stroking my ring finger with the rubber band as a quiet assurance.

I watched as Mrs. Kingston placed her well-manicured hands atop the table, one after another, and pinned Caleb with a glare.

“I thought you don’t want me near you. Why summon me here?”

There was so much hurt in her voice that I remembered what Judge Kingston said to Oakley earlier. Rosalie loves her son.

Caleb’s body became rigid. The hands that gripped mine hardened in tension.

“If it were up to me, I do not want anything to do with you after the stunt you pulled, but my in-laws wanted this meeting,” Caleb explained and gestured to my parents.

“What for? So, you can gloat?” Rosalie cast a frosty glare at my mother, who looked taken aback by the unexpected attack.

My mother clung to my father’s hand, and her reacti