Chapter 40 He May Not Love You But At Least He Pays

• “When did you learn all that?” asked Zoey.
• “On my sixteenth birthday,” answered Natalie, “Remember how I banned you from coming to my birthday party? You were so mad that you gave me the silent treatment for the entire week. I only did that because Linda brought her kids over that day. Back then, my mom didn’t even know about any of that.”
• Natalie was already a young lady at the age of sixteen. She could tell a lot of things simply by looking at her mom’s expression.