Chapter 77: The Son He Could Not Acknowledge
"Well, well, well," Sutton drawled, her voice tinged with sarcasm. "If it isn’t the lovebirds."
Lyse’s cheeks flushed with embarrassment as the memory of Sutton berating her at the chapel came back to haunt her. She had not seen Sutton since that horrible day, she felt blindsided by her parents decision to invite the woman who humiliated her on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life to dinner.
"I hope you don’t mind that I have invited Brandon and his mother to dinner." Lottie said with a sweet smile that hid the smugness underneath the surface. "They are going to be family soon, it’s only right that they get to meet you too."
Jeff was staring at her with barely concealed anger and she knew that there was going to be hell to pay after the dinner. But when Brooke informed her that Sutton wanted to come to the dinner, there had been no way she was going to say no. The look on Lyse’s face was reward enough for the yelling she would get at the end of the night.
Levi did not need to glance at Lyse to know that she was upset, he could feel how stiff she had become. He considered getting the hell out of the house and realized that it was exactly what Sutton wanted.
Also, Brandon was there. The son that he could not acknowledge as his, he had known there was a possibility that he would meet him there, after all Brooke was his girlfriend. Sitting across from him filled him with emotions that threatened to brim over.
"You are right," Lyse said as she raised her head. "They are family and things like these are going to happen more often."
She reached out and held Levi’s hand and glanced at him with love filled eyes. "Levi and I are happy to be here."
Levi was taken aback by Lyse’s behavior, but he was also proud of her because he knew that it could not easy for her.