“Those aren’t crazy things to want,” she said.
“I told you I wasn’t ready,” Ryan said. “I told you. Twice. And instead of listening, you went around me. You called Emma. You called David. You called my cousin Tyler and asked him to talk to me.”
He looked at her.
“So I told you not to come. And now here you are anyway. On my wedding day.”
“I was trying to be part of your life!”
“You were trying to skip twenty-three years and act like none of them happened.”
“I’m your mother,” she said.
“You’re my biological mother,” Ryan said.
Her face crumpled.
