I felt sick to my stomach at the memory and swallowed the bile that threatened my throat.

"Gavin?" Judy asked when I hadn't said anything.

I sighed; I could lie to her or deflect the question... but cared about Matt. She should know the truth so she can help me protect him when I'm not around him.

"Yes," I replied. "Cassie wants to see her son and I won't let that happen."

Judy nodded as her mind raced, probably thinking about what Cassie had done to make herself unworthy of seeing her son.

"There were a ton of rumors about the female Landry," Judy said softly. "But nobody really knows what happened to her."

I nodded.

benefit the Landry brand; I had

eyes seemed to have lit up, like she was expecting something juicy to happen and

I wasn't going to get out of telling her the rest of

Judy's gasp. "She was always like that... running with the wrong ones. They got her into drugs and other terrible things like stealing and spreading

driveway and parked out front. I didn't turn off the engine though; we sat there in silence for

from

pity on her because she was still my mother's little girl. She had my mother wrapped around her little manipulative finger. She didn't die in

as she processed each word I said

and before I could reprimand her for breaching the borders and entering a territory,

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