Chapter 28 Caught

• Mia
• The car door opened and slammed shut, and there he was, Lorenzo, towering over me, his face a mask of fury. His eyes scanned me from head to toe, his disgust palpable. A wave of nausea washed over me. This was the man who had turned my life upside down, the architect of my misery. Hate, pure and unadulterated, consumed me. I wanted to lash out, to hurt him, to make him pay for what he had done to me and my mother.
• He approached me, his eyes scanning me with a cold, calculating gaze. His face, usually masked by a veneer of calm, was now etched with a cruel satisfaction.