Chapter 34

• I should have expected Thelma’s arrival. Knowing that woman, I really should have but I did not so I was surprised to see her in Redville pack. My father never mentioned anything about her but with the way she always made sure to be next to him all the time, I should have expected her.
• “Hello,” my stepmother sneered at me in greeting. “I hear you are the Luna here,” she continued in a tight voice. “Well, that’s good for you since you have a thing for powerful men.” Her tone was snide. Her words were derisive and the way she spoke to me was no different from how she spoke to me when I was a fourteen-year-old; as if I was beneath her.
• “What are you doing here?” I asked even though I knew the answer.