You Looked Down on Me Once, Now You Look Up. novel Chapter 43

“We’re divorced. What’s left for me to be upset about?”

Tina’s hand froze in midair, wine decanter paused between them. She stared at Kelly, stunned. “You’re divorced?”

“Just this afternoon,” Kelly said, her voice cool.

Tina set the decanter down, nodding like it all made sense. “Honestly, Patricia’s always been too proud for that kind of humiliation. If I’d known it would make you so happy, maybe I should’ve pushed for it sooner.”

Kelly took a sip of her wine, a crooked smile on her lips. “Right? If I’d known it was this simple, I wouldn’t have wasted all those years stuck with a useless man.”

“But now that I’m finally free, you might want to be careful,” Kelly said, her tone suddenly serious.

Tina perked up, instantly alert. “What are you saying?”

Kelly’s smile only grew. “Do I really need to spell it out? Everyone knows the Martins’ dirty laundry.”

After Patricia’s parents died, the family business should have been hers. But her uncles swooped in and tore it apart, and Tina and her husband were right there with them. The only thing Patricia had left was a trust fund—one she couldn’t even touch until she turned twenty-six. She was still a few months shy.

If the Parsons family hadn’t taken her in at fifteen, Patricia probably wouldn’t have survived at all. The Martins had no intention of letting her live. Marrying Theo was just her way of finding some protection.

Now, with the divorce final, that protection was gone. What was stopping the Martins from finishing what they started?

Kelly spun her wineglass between her fingers. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

“When a wolf comes back, it’s never to say thanks. It’s for revenge. We’ve both seen how these family dramas end.”

Tina kept a faint, polite smile on her lips, but inside, her nerves were shot.

Patricia couldn’t be allowed to stay—not with the Parsons family behind her, and not with those sharp instincts she’d honed growing up. She was trouble.

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