Chapter23:

Chapter 23 EVA'S POINT OF VIEW  Sara's laugh made me weak, it cut through my heart like a dagger, She walked around me like a shark, her mean-girl friends right behind her, all of them looking at me like I was their next meal. "Just look at her," Sara said with that mean smile of hers. "Mrs. Maximilian Graves what a joke!" One of her friends laughed. "More like the wife nobody wants. Everyone knows Max can't stand her. How long before he kicks her out?" Their words hit me like punches. I made my hands into fists, trying to stop shaking, but I couldn't. I could barely breathe. "For real, Eva," Sara said, trying to sound sweet but really being super mean, "you should be ashamed to show up here. Everyone knows Max only married you because his grandfather made him. Without that, you'd be nothing." Her friends kept giggling like mean little kids. I tried to say something anything but the words got stuck. What was the point? They wouldn't listen anyway. "You want to talk?" one of Sara's frie