"I think you'll be sorely disappointed then, Mrs Domango. What we have is real and no one can come between us. Not even you. Right, Richie darling?"
She almost puked after using the endearment on this despicable man. But she couldn't help it, after all, she needed to drive her point home and how best to achieve that than to become the bitch she was in their eyes.
A muscle in Richard's jaw ticked but he said nothing to the nonsense Shantel had just uttered, however, Shantel could feel the killing intent radiating from his body as she inched closer to him.
Seeing her son making no attempt to refute the garbage Shantel had just vomited or distance himself from her, Josephine's nose flared inexplicably. For a moment, she forgot her dignified image as she angrily sprang to her feet, yanking her handbag from the couch.