To my shock, Liam O’Grady turned his smile on me but his eyes were …blazing.

I stiffened.

Job? I thought stupidly. What was he talking about?

Had he misunderstood me yesterday?

*

But my stepmother was gabbing away cheerfully, blissfully unaware of the tension in the room. But then, she was nicely drunk, I thought wearily.

Heather, whose hand he had been holding, clasped his with both her hands fervently, as she said, happily,

“Oh, Bianca, it’s your lucky phase now, don’t you think so dear!”

And she turned to O’Grady, still smiling benignly as she said, clucking her tongue at me with a mischievous smile,

“Just yesterday she had...