Chapter 434 Splitting the Spoils

• “Matthew, I really don’t get what was going through your head. Usually you can sweet-talk Mom without even blinking. It’s hard enough for her to pry a single honest word out of you. But yesterday your brain just froze. You wouldn’t even humor her a little. I kept winking at you to play along, and you flat-out ignored me,” Yvonne huffed.
• “I didn’t notice.”
• Finnian felt awkward. That old line “care makes you careless” hit a little too close to home. Yesterday he’d gotten stuck in his own head and stopped thinking straight. Otherwise, a couple of casual excuses might’ve gotten Mom off his back. Too late now. “Yvonne, how about this—later I’ll go apologize to Mom and say I’m willing to break up. Will that work?”