“While you haven’t done any interviews for the last year, your father certainly has. I have noted here, let’s see… fourteen separate interviews he has done with the press. Most of them complain that he has been cut out of your life.”
Piper blinks placidly. “I’m not here to answer for the actions of my father. He is my blood relation, but I can’t control him anymore than he has controlled me.”
“‘Blood relation?’” Monica wrinkles her nose. “That’s a little cold.”
Piper sighs. “I just don’t want to—”
“I know family can be difficult, but wouldn’t you rather answer some of these questions and dispense the rumors?”
I narrow my eyes. “Next question, Monica.”
The reporter looks from me to Piper and back again, searching for a way through our strong front. But Piper circles her finger across
