This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Staff Wing
Darla didn't say a word for the first ten miles.
She sat at her end of the back seat and scrolled on her phone.
Mabel sat at the other end with her backpack on her knees and her red coat zipped to her chin.
She had sewn that coat's hem herself on Wednesday night, at the kitchen table, while Fern watched.
Fern had asked why.
Mabel had said, "In case I need a pocket nobody knows about."
Fern had looked at her for a long moment and then gone to find her better thread.
On the Edens, Darla finally put her phone down.
"Your mother's very sure of herself," she said, looking out the window. "Your pretend mother."
Mabel said nothing.
"She thinks she has something on me." Darla smiled at the glass. "But she's never been on this side of a court order. I have three judges at my Christmas party."
The car turned onto a long road lined with bare trees and iron gates.
Mabel knew every gate.
The car turned in at the tallest one.
The house rose out of the dark, white stone and black windows, lit up.
Mabel had lived in it for eight years.
She had died in it.
It hadn't changed at all.
Inside, the front hall still smelled like lilies and floor polish.
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