Chapter 108: RICHARD
"The main reason?" I repeated, feigning indifference.
The truth was that I didn’t like how quickly she had brushed off what she had been going to say on account of my slight interruption.
I had really wanted to know what she was going to say. In this meeting, I feel like I’m getting to know who she really was, without those layers she usually hid behind, until now that she has retreated back to them.
She was all serious now. All business. The moment was lost, there was no need trying to recover, there’s only forging ahead, hopefully she will drop the serious act as we forge ahead.
Reclining on my chair, I said,
"On my word, I promise I will tell you about the main reason, but before that I need you to tell me why this situation of yours appears choiceless when it’s clear you can say no to her. I mean she’s your stepmom not your goddamn creator"
It was true. Her situation wasn’t as choiceless as she had it cooked up. Stepmoms can be cruel, but doesn’t the girl always find a way to get happiness in the end. I mean, isn’t that what happens in all the movies about them?
"I ask the same of you," Sofia said, countering, "why does your situation seem choiceless when you can clearly say no as well, I mean you must want to with the kind of life you live, right?"
I smiled, leaning forward, glad there was now a crack in her wall of seriousness, and asked,
"The kind of life I live, what does that entail?"
With the same air of indifference I had exhibited, she answered,
"Well, if you must know, I have heard things, but that doesn’t matter. It’s not like you need a rundown of your scandalous lifestyle..." she allowed her statement trail unfinished, hoping that I take up from there.