Davidson's [POV]
When we're back at the house, I get a call from Chantel. I call her my stepmom, but our relationship is more complicated than that.
Phillip Winters was a shit-tas-tic human being. He had an affair with my mother while he was married. Then, when he got caught, he dumped her like a rotten fish and went back to his wife.
He didn't care that my mom got pregnant. Or that she died before I turned ten and I got put into a shitty foster home with a woman who only wanted the checks she was getting from the government.
While Phillip looked the other way, it was Chantel his wife who agreed to take me in and raise me. She didn't have to do that, especially when she must've had some deeply rooted resentment against Phillip and my mother. So I consider it my responsibility to take care of Chantel in return, even if I actively despise her daughter Ella.
"Hello, Chantel," I say, keeping my voice friendly. It isn't her fault her daughter is a bitch. "How are you?"
