#Chapter184
Too Good at Goodbye
MEGAN
I COULDN’T hear this anymore without feeling the surge of jealousy inside my chest. I looked away and blinked when I got all weepy.
/"At fifteen, Meadow became my girlfriend, and I thought we would get married. When I turned sixteen, I found out someone was looking for us. And the man that was once my father came back from the dead. He faked his death. That was why I fled to this country to protect my mother and myself./"
/"I left my Mama. I knew she was safe because no one would recognize her anymore, but I was not. That’s how I ended up here. Alan is not my uncle by blood./"
/"Why did you have to leave?/" My head tipped to mom.
/"Because of Oliver. My real father. Now Francois Xavier. He figured that I didn’t die, and perhaps, wanted to cut some loose ends./"
/"By killing his son?/" I asked, confused, terrified.
/"Maybe. He’s a monster after all./"