Lola’s POV. “Your mom did this to you? Why?” Mika looks broken and I cry harder. I never wanted him to see me like this. I don’t want anyone to see me like this. Since Monday morning, when I had that altercation with Sophia, she didn’t just give up. She bombarded me with hateful text messages and froze my accounts. Luckily, I had money in the safe hidden in my closet that I put my tips in, and money that dad had given me. She doesn’t know that. So when she couldn’t get a rise out of me, two hours ago she sent her goons here. With a simple message. I either cooperate with what she wants or bad things will happen. I should have taken the message as a warning, but I thought she wouldn’t stoop this low. I was wrong, so very wrong. They started to trash my home, my sanctuary, my safe plac

