She rolled her eyes.

“You Carlisle women cry very elegantly.”

“Excuse me?”

“Your mother does too.”

Apparently Beatrice and Gianna had begun having lunch without telling me.

I considered that the strangest betrayal in the entire family history.

PART 60 — BEATRICE’S REAL APOLOGY

It came twenty-two years after the ultimatum.

Not in a mansion.

Not in therapy.