or was removing my stitches, m

d. "The Harrisons have agreed. The wedding i

so potent it almost made my knees

, Mom," I

is, Sarah," she sighed. "But your fathe

at's all

a different name. I wasn't going back to that house. I wasn't going to give them another chance to hurt me

knob when it was pushed

d stood there, their

ink you're going

uitcase behind my back. "I was

yone?" David asked, his eyes sweeping over the

ading bandage on my arm. For a moment, a flick

, hold my hand under the table at boring dinners, and whisper that his favorite part of any day

t nothing but a hollow ache. The man I loved was gone, replaced by this stranger

pital," Ethan said, his voice a low rumble. "Chloe was

th sarcasm I couldn't contain. "You only forcibly too

aces ha

h," Mark snapped. "W

presence overwhelming, and escorted me out of the bui

once called home, I saw Chloe waiting on the porc

back for Chloe. She was being discharged from the hospital today, and they wanted me here to welcome

ical thing, a bitter taste

he car stopped. She ignored me comple

me." She turned to me, her eyes shining with unshed tears. "Sarah, I'm so

m, where the table was laden with

ering. Or a

erve me. "I know you love seafood, so I had

was sharp. He rushed forward and

gently guiding her to a chair. "You shou

she cares about you? And all you

f glass, making sure she was comfortable, that her arm wa

laying out over and over. Chloe would feign kindness, they wo

I said, turning

t?" She looked at the three men, her lower lip trembling. "I promise, I'll never go on a

was dizzying. This endless, toxic cycle.