*Caterina*

“Mom?”

Elio’s shocked and dismayed voice had shocked me back to reality.

The moment I realized what had happened, I took several steps away, my arms pulled tightly behind my back as I immediately stared at the floor in sheer embarrassment, gazing at the pretty red heels Olivia had generously let me borrow. The skirt of the brand-new dress she’d insisted on putting on me fluttered around my thighs.

What the fuck had we been ...