Unbroken by Emma Fawkes

Author:Emma Fawkes [Fawkes, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B011EPLEOU
Published: 2015-07-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

MIlly

I stand in front of the mailboxes for several minutes, just staring at the envelope, before going back inside. I know what it is, even before I open it. In fact, I decide not to open it at all. I leave it on my counter for a few days, glaring at it any time I’m in the kitchen.

I’ve received numerous calls from my mother over the course of the last week, along with countless texts and emails. All have gone unopened or ignored. Why should this envelope be any different?

“Are you going?” Susie asks when I tell her about the invite as we meet over coffee. “When is it?”

“I don’t know,” I reply with a smirk, twirling the straw of my iced latte with my tongue. “I haven’t opened the envelope.”

“Then how do you know what it is?” she asks.

“It’s big and heavy and a tacky gold color.”

“I doubt that,” Susie says with a laugh. I growl at her, and she continues. “You and I both know that Sabrina Hamilton is a lot of things, but tacky she is not.”

“I think it’s tacky. I think gold is always tacky.”

“Well, that’s where you and most of the world differ.”

“Most of the world is wrong.”

“Are you going?”

“No!” I look at Susie like she’s lost her mind. “Of course not!”

“She’s your mother,” Susie says with a sigh. “And it’s not like Sabrina Hamilton would ever allow herself to be ignored.”

“That’s unfortunately true. I’m thinking about moving away and not divulging my new address.”

“You’d have to change jobs too,” Susie says with a smirk. We both know I love my job way too much to ever quit. Plus, I’m making better money than I could ever hope to elsewhere.

“Maybe I’ll get a huge guard dog that’s trained to attack her on sight,” I say, and that makes Susie laugh.

“You need to be serious Milly,” she says once her giggles have subsided. “You can’t ignore her forever.”

“Watch me,” I snap, but deep down I know that Susie has a point. Still, I’m going to ignore mother for a while. I deserve that. At least through the wedding—and hopefully until Cameron is redeployed and is completely out of my life.

The thought of Cameron sends a familiar pang through my chest but I ignore it. Instead, I sip on my coffee and continue to make fun of my horrible mother’s inevitably tacky wedding.

“It’s not going to be tacky,” Susie says. “I hate to break it to you, but it’s probably going to be so classy it will make you sick.”

“I won’t be sick,” I reply happily. “I won’t be there at all. So we’ll never know whether or not it’s classy. I, for one, am choosing to believe that it’s going to be as tacky as possible.”

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