“Hey Mom.”
“Did you tell your father he’s not your father anymore?”
“Did he tell you he called me a horrible human being for using Cruz Hawley’s likeness on my book?”
“No.” the tone of her mother’s voice told her that her father was in s**t when she got hold of him.
“He scolded me saying I went too far. Cruz has bullied and abused me my entire life. I did the thing the at the restaurant. He demanded I make restitution in the way of dating him on four dates. I negotiated him agreeing to do the cover. I showed him the photo I was going to use, Mom. He approved it. I agreed to four dates to fix his image with the company because of the restaurant thing and I got to use his photo. He agreed. He signed off. It’s not my fault he chose not to read up at all on what my book was, who my audienc
