Chapter 57 Defeat

• Roxanne was not prepared to leave at first. She stood, glaring aggressively at Claude who had been deputed to convince her to take Xander and accompany Van Dyke when he left.
• Of course, everyone agreed that if Van Dyke was left to do the convincing, the couple might begin to fight like cat and dog. The chemistry between them was off the charts but Roxanne was no wallflower when it came to her son. She was a tigress.
• “You ask me to return to that mausoleum of a house with a mad woman locked away upstairs?” shouted Roxanne, her heart pounding as she envisaged her future.