And definitely be laughing, acting as if they had already won.
She clenched her fists and exhaled sharply.
She didn't want anything—not even Jerry's incompetence—to distract her to the point that she wouldn't be able to deal with Penelope and her children the way they deserved. But the longer this delay went on, the more her thoughts scattered. The more her focus frayed. She could feel it.
She needed to pull herself back together, but first, Jerry needed to explain himself.
And fast.
Because if this continued, if this chaos kept growing around her, she feared she would soon lose the grip she had over everything—and that was something she simply couldn't allow.
She didn't like this feeling, not one bit.
