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Guess she had seen this coming.

“It’s disgusting! First you do those nasty things with sex toys, and now this? What’s next, a porno?”

Jesus fucking Christ, woman.

Though…Valley had been naked on the internet before, so she wasn’t that far off.

“That’s enough!” Andrew said loudly. “Do you want everyone else to see you like this?”

“I don’t care who sees me like this! I don’t want a daughter who acts like a slut in public and at home!”

Della calling Valley a slut made my blood boil, even if I called her one too when I fucked her.

It was different though.

“It’s on me, Della,” I said, trying to get some sense into her. But she didn’t wanna hear my side of the story. I’ve known her long enough, but this was a side of her I’d never met before.

“No, it’s not! She’s been a brat lately and now she’s trying to get back at me.”

Valley laughed, crossing her arms over her chest after straightening her dress. “Right,” she muttered, rolling her eyes.

“That’s enough,” Andrew spat. “Don’t talk about my daughter like this and stop being such a witch, Della. Let them talk,” he told her, then he looked at Valley. “What’s going on?”

I turned my gaze to look at her, watching as she clenched her jaw and tried to stay calm and collected.

“Whatever I’m going to say, she’s gonna call me names again,” Valley said, shooting a glare at Della.

“Because you’re not acting like a lady! Is this how I raised you ever since your mother left?”

It wasn’t a good idea pulling Valley’s biological mom into the mix, and it showed as her brows furrowed and eyes narrowed. “No one asked you to act like my mother,” she shot back.

“Well, but I did! And you should be thankful for it. I taught you a lot, and I’m disappointed that you go against everything God stands for!”

Shit, now she threw religion into this conversation.

Not a good idea at all.

“I don’t care! Don’t force your beliefs on me or anyone for that matter,” Valley replied.

“You’re going to hell,” Della muttered, her disappointment written on her face.

“All right, that’s it. You need to calm down,” Andrew said, trying to get Della to walk away.

“No, it’s not it. Why do you think this is how eighteen-year-olds should behave? You’re still a child and not old enough to do such things!”

That was the one sentence that made Valley furious.

My Valley was many things, but her being a child and immature were far from the truth.

“You don’t know me! Just because you were raised differently, doesn’t mean I have to follow in your footsteps and lose my virginity at thirty!”

Which was literally what happened to Della, but this wasn’t about her.

Valley looked at me, silently asking me for help. “Let’s go,” she whispered, making it sound more like a question.

As much as I hated to leave confrontations open like this, I knew this wasn’t going to get resolved anytime soon, especially not with all these people watching the shit show.

I nodded and reached out to her, letting her wrap her hand around mine before passing her parents.

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