Chapter 280 – Mommy
"Voren." His name came out of her mouth before she could decide whether to say it. "What are you doing here?"
She heard the confusion in her own voice and hated it, that slight unsteadiness that gave away the fact that she was genuinely thrown.
Her eyes stayed on him a beat longer than they should have, searching his face like the answer to a question she hadn't fully formed yet.
His brows pulled together, that familiar tightening moving through his expression. He looked at her the way someone looks when they have walked into a room expecting to find it empty. "I could ask you the same thing."
The disbelief in his voice was real. As far as he knew, she belonged to Leon's hospital, to a theatre, her own schedule. Her being here made no sense from any angle he could find.
Nicole had come in behind him and was now standing just inside the doorway doing absolutely nothing to pretend she wasn't watching all of this with complete attention.
