Chapter 186: Black Alliance
"Why should I?" She shrugs. "You and your husband merely just defended yourself, when my son acted out on his own" she states, shaking her head and bringing the elegant wine glass she held just to her lips.
Riley scoffs at her words, she wasn’t expecting that at all! Was she really a mother? Didn’t she have any feeling of loss when she heard about her son’s death?
Linda’s lips pressed in a smirk sipping her wine. Maybe she doesn’t feel anything. Riley could still remember how it felt when she lost Ryan.
"A woman who doesn’t have the faintest affection for her son," she said with still looks. "That’s hurtful and both disturbing"
"I wouldn’t be the first," Linda states, dropping the glass on the table.
"Now... tell me why you are really here... not alone of course... you graced my party with your husband" she said in amusement.
Riley gulps hard, she must have sniffed them out way before she came here, she’s good.
"Of course, I know you didn’t come here alone" she adds smirking as her eyes went back to the congregation below, Riley followed.
Liam was seated watching the performance, his arm rested on the chair arm, his fingers lining his jaw.
"You’re lucky Mrs. O’Brien, you caught such a handsome figure" she states as her eyes darken with desire. They turned to Riley’s unreadable ones.
"Wish I was 20 years younger would have done the privilege of seducing your husband... would have been the greatest accomplishment of my youth, don’t you think"