Chapter 2

I laughed coldly inside. What a joke.

Back then, the thing she used to say to me most often was, “Looking like that, you’re basically a dead ringer for my dog.”

“This is your future sister-in-law. Her name is —”

“Vanessa Whitaker,” I cut him off coldly.

Mom and Dad froze.

“Maddie, you mean… her?” Mom stared at me, disbelieving.

Vanessa was clearly caught off guard too. “You are…?”