Christian looked at her with genuine sadness in his eyes and Avery realized she may have been too flippant. Oops.
She was quick to blow it off. "It's fine, really! I had a great childhood. My dad was the best so I hardly noticed she was gone. I didn't need someone like her in my life anyway."
"It's good you feel that way," he said in an unfathomable tone before tightening his hold on her. He kissed the side of her face before dropping the subject and turning the movie back on, clearly still bothered by what she said.
Avery really didn't care about her mother though. Why would she after more than twenty years? That woman could do whatever she wanted as long as she didn't cause her any trouble, which was unlikely considering a scandal could ruin a politician.
Nobody knew she had abandoned a young daughter to start over somewhere else. She took great pains to hide it.
