Chapter 5
“Luke’s daughter, Evelyn, is going to live with us for a short while. She’ll take the spare room in the basement,” Jen exclaimed as she pushed the bowl of mashed potatoes into my hands at the dinner table. She shared a hurried glance with Evelyn, who sat across from me.
Evelyn was the kind of girl I’d love to hate with her flawless red curls, the perfect bone structure, skin as smooth as silk. She was thin, and just overall radiated beauty.
“Why?” Oliver blurted out, his mouth full of potatoes, and I couldn’t hide my smile to know he wasn’t a little jerk to just me.
“My ex-wife is going through a rough patch,” Luke explained, watching Evelyn with so much admiration it made me long to have a father who loved me that much.
If my parents hadn’t abandoned me in the woods when I’
