Chapter 20

Roseline’s POV I immediately knew that the woman was Adrian’s ex-wife and Roman’s mother, Kelly. Roman bore some resemblance to her. He inherited some of her features. It wasn’t hard for just anybody to tell that she was his mother. I looked at her image jealously trying to compare myself with her—but no matter how much I thought about it, I knew I was way below her. It was not that I was undermining myself but I just couldn’t compete with her. “She’s beautiful, right?” Roman asked adorably and I nodded earnestly. I mean …what am I supposed to tell a seven-year-old about his absent mother? I had no idea what happened to her and I couldn’t even ask –Adrian would skin me alive. I knew better than to stay on my lane and keep my mouth shut. There was a reason why no one knew what happened to her. But at least, Roman knew he once had a mother. I wondered if Roman was aware of what happen to his mother or he was also in the dark like all of us. “I miss her sometimes and I wish that she’d jus