The two days after Serina’s birthday party was weird. Romeo could see Penelope was masking something and couldn’t ask. Her bye to his mother feeling icy as their stare down felt like a declaration of war.
And the flag he was waving? Was ignored.
Because Penelope didn’t step foot back in front of his mother again. Feigning sick the last two days of their trip, he had lunch with his family who wondered what happened to her. Serina thinking he’d listened to her just waved the concerns off, “Enough, enough, it’s family time, let’s focus on more important things. Like summer, you two are coming here and we’re going to have a ball. Yes?”
Rolling his eyes to the ceiling, Romeo let his mother hyper-fixate and try to fix what he felt couldn’t be and had to be accepted as is. But as he unknowi
