Jolie was pissed. How dare Brix get angry with her for being upset? He was all kinds of an asshole and completely missed the fact he had completely usurped her life and then dumped her in the house all alone with Pia and a bunch of strange men she didn’t know. She was terrified to go downstairs.
Pia looked around her new bedroom with the four-poster canopy bed, her goldfish swimming delightedly in his bowl on perfectly placed desk which was filled with every crafting supply known to man a five-year-old would love and the big shaggy pink area rug. She suddenly shrugged carelessly as if bored and looked at her mother, “I’m hungry.”
It meant she had to go to the kitchen to feed her and Pia. Where the men were. In the house with no familiar faces, only strangers and silence.
“Do you not wan
