Teasing My 7 Hot Alpha Stepbrothers at the Royal Academy novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Mom
"Mom."
"Don't 'Mom' me." She came in and shut the door.
"A girl at the circulation desk showed me. On her phone. At my library, Romy."
"I'm sorry."
"Everyone was very kind about it," Mom said, and her voice wobbled. "All day."
She sat down hard on the desk chair.
I sat on the edge of the bed across from her.
"I knew about Nero," she said. "I was at that breakfast. I held your hand."
"I know."
"I knew about Titus. He stood up at Sunday dinner like a man reporting a car accident."
"He gets that from his father."
She almost smiled. Then she didn't.
"I didn't know about a notebook. I didn't know about Hadrian." She held up her phone. "I didn't know you were testing them. Like rats."
"Not like rats."
"Then like what?"
I took the notebook out of my pocket.
I held it for a second.
Then I gave it to her.
"Like me," I said. "Read it. All of it. I'm not hiding it anymore."
She opened it at the front.
Two years of scent notes. Bed numbers. Fevers before fever.
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