Chapter 77

ELLIE

“What’s going on here?” The suddenness of my dad’s voice was almost as frightening as the look of disapproval on his face. I could have sworn that he was the last person I had been expecting to run into that day.

I felt like pleading with the ground to open up and swallow me in, as the humiliation that came with the moment was just too much for one person to bear all alone. There were a lot of things going wrong at the moment and it was all Aiden’s fault.

How could he have grown so audacious to pull off such a stunt out there in the open? I feel like rewinding everything to when I had been deciding to come out there and see him. That was the biggest mistake of that Sunday afternoon.

I should have just stayed out of their family business like my instincts had told me. But now, I was paying a much too bitter price.

“Oh… Mr. Sanders… good day…” Aiden stuttered terribly as he forced a smile on his face. “I had no idea you would be coming over today…”

“What are you both doing?” My