REIGN
An hour passed with everyone happily communicating around the table except for me; I barely responded to anything, even when it involved me.
The thing is, I couldn't even if I wanted to, though I don't want to. Not around these complicated families where mine are nothing but beasts, and Magnolia's family were those kinds who took advantage of circumstance just as they did with their daughter's romantic relationship while my father was alive.
If not for what I would like to discuss with Callahan, I would have left this messed-up table a couple of minutes after the dinner started.
So when Magnolia excused herself for the restroom, my legs itched to follow her. That part was instinct, and it has scarcely a thing to do with the little flirting moves she and her so-called boyfriend
