Page 402 of On A Manhunt: Complete Series

ASPEN

For a mansion as big as this one, it didn’t take long to run into my mother.

If my father was here, then I knew she would be.

All I had to do was turn around and look across the room.

Seeing my father had been a surprise. I was caught off guard and my emotions were raw.

I felt vulnerable and young again. But I’d had a few minutes to prepare myself to see my mother. It wasn’t enough.

“That’s her,” I told Luke, lifting my chin in the direction where my mother stood, an entourage surrounding her. She was speaking and they were listening in awe, as if she were a cult leader and she was telling them to drink the juice.

“Where?” Luke asked, eyes searching.

“The blonde with the crowd.”

I knew the second Luke saw her. His eyes widened.

“That’s… that’s your mother?”

Mother saw me and she stopped speaking for a moment. Then she smiled and excused herself from the group.

Shit, she was coming this way.

“Yes.”

“Fuck.”