Chapter 69

As soon as those words were out, not only did Elaine's face visibly shift, even Marcus's expression twitched a little. Because in this house, everyone knew—Audrey was a vegetarian, and definitely wasn't the kind of meat-lover Oliver just claimed she was. Elaine shot Oliver a hard glare, half-covering her face in disbelief. Was he serious? Joking's fine, but there's gotta be a line—words like that could easily be taken seriously! Oliver seemed to catch on that he'd messed up. Before he could figure out how to walk back that comment, Elaine rolled her eyes like it was no big deal and muttered, "I only started liking meat after getting really sick. Before that I didn't even care for it." "You just didn't want to mess up your figure, so you faked it," Oliver shot back like he was seeing through her, but both he and Elaine knew he was just trying to smooth things over. Elaine glared harder. "None of your damn business!" She snagged a BBQ rib, sauce and all, and started chomping like it owed