Poor Rochelle had no clue what all this new slang meant, so she could only look to Mrs. Donovan for help.
Mrs. Donovan was also dumbfounded by this bombshell and, for a moment, had no idea how to explain it to Rochelle.
The worst part was, she could feel the relatives who had reacted to Arabella's thoughts earlier now stopping what they were doing, all of them secretly listening in on the drama!
Arabella Donovan was always quick to jump on the latest gossip. As soon as she learned about Rochelle Rowland's two children, she immediately pulled up the novel about them—a romance filled with tropes like love between adoptive siblings, a runaway pregnancy, and cute kids.
It was called a "sweet-and-angsty" romance because it was incredibly sweet when it was sweet, gut-wrenchingly angsty when it was angsty, and unbelievably doting when it was doting. Its main feature was its unpredictability, with constant tonal whiplash.
