“The freak is gone, good riddance.” The woman said earning several giggles.
Drake saw red. He’d been silent up until now, pretending not to hear their whispered poison filling the store. How dare they call Brooklyn a freak or ridicule her eyes. They were unique and different just like her, but that didn’t make them bad.
As much as he wanted to give Meredith Carnes a set down, she was the mayor’s daughter and the last person he wanted to get on the wrong side of.
Millie, on the hand didn’t have the same problem.
She came around the front of their checkout counter with her arms crossed over her chest looking like a fire breathing dragon about to reduce Meredith to ash. “Who do you think you are, Meredith Carnes to talk to people that way?”
Meredith looked stunned to be talked to that
