Your daughter needs to learn some manners.”
Will nodded slowly. “Okay. Then let’s make the discipline honest.”
He turned slightly so that everyone in the room could hear him clearly.
“I gave my mom the money for that gift,” he said.
“Two weeks ago.”
My stomach dropped.
I felt heat crawl up my neck because I suddenly realized that he hadn’t told me.
“I told her exactly what Abby’s been dreaming about,” Will continued. “Because Mom said she wanted to do something special. She said she wanted to start over with us.”
Sharon froze.
“I didn’t even tell my wife,” he added, his eyes flicking to mine for half a second.
“Because I wanted it to be a surprise. A good one.”
He swallowed hard. “And I never, in a million years, thought my own mother would use my daughter’s birthday as a stage for some twisted power play.”
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