Chapter 81: Uno Reverse

Charlotte It was strange how Laura delivered that news to me, almost like an Uno reverse card. I didn’t know if I should laugh or be concerned. Maybe both? But in the end, I took the news in stride. Things had been weird lately, and if nothing else, it just fit into the chaotic mess my life had become. Damien and I… well, whatever that was between us, it was becoming harder to define. “Besides,” she said flippantly, waving at me, “nobody's going to take Richard from me because I’m going to make it as clear as humanly possible that he’s mine and I am his. You have every right to be nervous. I’m willing to bet you’ll be so scared and so sad when someone else does. Imagine how you’d feel if you were in my place. You would feel as though your entire world was crashing down because you could have stopped it, and you didn’t. If you had just been true to the way you felt and confronted it in the same way I have… not to brag or anything.” *Touché*, I thought to myself as I looked away fro