Chapter 6 Exposed

However, Gideon hadn't been favored in the past. The most he'd been able to do for his family at the time was become a live-in husband at my house, so he'd never been invited to the Lanes' banquet. But now that Gideon was rich, his family had begun sucking up to him instead. … The Lane residence was a huge, old house. It was divided into a few sections, too. I'd heard that the house and the Lanes' property had all been inherited from Gideon's great-grandfather. However, when it came to Gideon's father's generation, things had been going downhill. As soon as Gideon and I arrived at the banquet, Gideon's many aunts approached us. Soon, those ladies separated Gideon from me. Even through the crowd, I could hear them asking Gideon when he'd kick me to the curb. They even offered to introduce gentler, nicer women to him. I wondered if they were oblivious to Gideon and Sierra's relationship. Banquets like this were actually quite boring. People wouldn't ask about anything aside from