teny

anked me up by my collar, so hard

me!" h

ds coming up to

ha

You know she has severe depressi

d barely breathe. After a beat o

ld her you

nd he shoved me back

to Kamilah, I won't l

g on the gravel driveway while I was packing my suitcase. Stepping out of the be

a simple white button-down shirt, her frame slender and del

nally looking at the woman who owned my husband's heart. Her skin was porcelain-pale,

ooked up at me, his dark bro

ked down the stairs. The moment my foot t

e said softly. "It's not right for me to rec

the front door,

me a freezing glare, silently

here until she rec

tly at his sleeve,

has nothing to do with Britteny. My

ening into a tone he had never used with me. "I've called my

at me with an a

s. Beau and I grew up together. He's

remain

won

rist still hurt. He didn't spare me a single glance. Standing

I wanted to end th

we ar

ag cut me off. Beau immediately pu

oe," he s

le girl's high-pitched voic

his shoulder pressing against hers

ouse?" Chloe asked. "Is Unc

eyes cur

ttle longer. Once Mommy feels

leep in the same b

weight crushed my chest. With Kamilah in the house,

t of my bag. Looking at Beau's scrawled signature on the last page, a dry laugh escaped my lips. When I han

et exit, yet the whole th

Kamilah, and you're hidi

his eyes devoid of any warmth. Since h

e need t

porridge for Kamilah," he c