Valerie vanished from our room, but her tantrum didn't end there. Knowing she couldn't face Luther again, she did what any good drama queen does: she went straight to the top. She sought out August Grey, and cried rivers to him.
Her pitch was perfectly orchestrated. She claimed that Lucy was her only child, the one constant at her side for years, and she simply couldn't bear to have her only source of comfort snatched away. She tearfully declared that Luther's decision was cruel and that it was emotionally devastating to separate her from her daughter.
She begged August to reconsider Luther's harsh ruling and allow her to stay. She swore up and down that she wouldn't meddle in my or Luther’s affairs and that her presence would be strictly to parent Lucy and nothing more.
August, whose
