front door clicked open

d on the hall light-and f

or a hug. "Babe, sitting in the d

A wave of disgus

that same body had been pressed against someone el

ation, she pu

led back. His face darkene

ad, she rose from the couch

y the time he reached the bedroom en

igured she was throwing a fit

d up. But work was insane today-you know I'm doing all this for us. On

act and couldn't bear to wa

had downloaded from Meridian Hospital's syste

learly on the screen. Ruby Bailey, twenty-two

n read it, his e

elief. He had never imagined that her connections could r

ng on me?" he sho

ind-only rage that she'd

ggle to speak through his anger. At that momen

that she had served as the lea

ce as proof that his

ger took control and p

ou. But so what? You burned every bridge with your family to be with me. You've got no

that moment, the love she had given him for

goodness she had discovered the truth before sh

ed him across t

hing about you makes me

as she pulled her suitcase around h

cheek and shouted after her, "Walk out tha

, she continued walking until the

took out her phone again-then bloc

she called a number she had a

n a familiar voi

"I was wrong.