Chapter 389

Cecilia's pov After ending the call with Mom and Grandma, I sat on the edge of the bed, mind racing through my limited options. The situation was a complete nightmare. With Grandma's stubborn determination, having Sebastian order the security team to escort them home would be disastrous. She'd spill everything about my connection to the Locke family before Sebastian could even get the words out. Not happening. What about trying to convince them over the phone ? Try to convince them I wanted nothing to do with Zane ? Yeah, right. If they could be talked out of this, they wouldn't have made the trip to Colorado Springs in the first place. I'd already tried reasoning with them and gotten nowhere. So here I was, backed into a corner with only one way out. That left exactly one option : meet them tomorrow as requested, then somehow prevent them from crashing Martha's birthday party. The plan was simple, even if it wasn't pretty. If they were determined to drag me to the Locke estate, I'd ju