True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: Two Daughters

"You know it's a trap," Brodie said.

We were sitting in his truck at the end of Greek row on Thursday afternoon, with the engine off.

Every house on the street had a homecoming float half built on its lawn.

Chicken wire, tissue paper, plywood, a hundred people with staple guns and music playing from somebody's speaker.

"It's not a trap if I walk into it on purpose," I said.

"That's exactly what a trap is."

"I want her to hear it before the room starts clapping."

I had Lorna's photocopy folded in my jacket pocket.

I'd read it so often the folds had gone soft.

"If she won't read it, I'll tell her myself," I said. "Out loud. On her own lawn."

"Liv, she called you a thief in front of two hundred people."

"I know."

"So what do you think changes if you tell her?"

"Nothing, probably."

"Then why?"

"Because when we were six, she used to sneak me the burnt cookies off Lorna's tray, because I liked them best."

"And because nobody told me the truth for nineteen years, and I hated every single one of them for it."

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