She felt guilty with how bad she teased her mom about Jack Sutherland and tried her best to impress this upon her mother once they were finally in their hotel room. By the look on her mother’s face when she entered the bathroom, however, she wasn’t buying it. Cassie sighed as the door clicked closed and the shower drowned out any more conversation.
She should know better. Her mother was always confident, even aggressive at times, when she approached life and men. When she divorced Cassie’s father, she had determined never to play the timid housewife again, going after everything she wanted with everything she had. Therefore, when Lily started to stammer and stutter, Cassie should have known how deep her mother’s infatuation went. Cassie needed to be more careful from now on with what she said.