MILLIE A yelp escaped my lips as I felt a jab of middle prickling my skin, which forced me awake. I did not know for how long I had been unconscious or if I had been unconscious at all, but then the memories came flooding back to me like a broken dam. My baby shower, someone pushing me to the ground until my skull nearly cracked, and the strong unfamiliar arms that grasped me and took me to the car. I knew who it was. My mother had to be involved with this. But how did she know my address and the perfect time to attack in Roman’s house? Where was my bodyguard when I needed him? Maybe someone was in on this. Was it Allison? But I just met her a few days ago. Maybe both of them, my mother and Allison, were crazy enough to orchestrate something as crazy as this. They were going to kill my