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ina'
r own teardown and not even gettin
regnancy test in my bag in a pink box. I'd been twelve days late, had two weeks of nausea introducing itself every morning like an unwanted roommate. I'd thought after dinner, I'd take the test. Maybe tonight I'd f
dinning room smi
my in-laws with her hands folded. We hadn't spoken in eight weeks. Not since she'd showed up at my doorstep
y. "Didn't realize we were
She gave a fake smile
stured to the empt
at Nicholas, he was looking at
e things we ne
bo
d a thousand times. "Has extended you reasonabl
xactly?" I asked, even
ittle. A home, a family. A wife who was actually present. Instead you chose your am
d my entire career because this family decided a wife with a real job was inconvenient. So I'd really love to hear what patien
said flatly. "We expected r
ean a
ivorce papers on the table between us."Three years and not
ed, shaking my head. "Okay. Fine. But I still don't understand w
gnant,"
between her and Emma, still completely lost. "That's... okay, good for you,
. My eyes went Nico's, and the loo
ot..." I looked at Callie, her expression was perfectly
father." She sa
ely steady and I had no idea how. "Because
g about you hea
s and he was still
Tell me she just cooked up some insane story and you have no idea
stretched, and I felt somethi
standing right here and asking you to say something, so op
He said cut
oke. "You've been s
Kat, if you want to be honest, if we're actually being honest
e?" I sai
just back noise in your life? I tried, I reached for you but you were always exhausted, busy, had seventeen
am, my entire career because your mother decided my ambitions was a personality flaw and you want to
I was alone in this marriage way before any of this happened, and
you're telling yourself. Kat was too focused on surviving in
id no
, voice short. "You couldn't ev
eeded," Konrad said flatly. "We ma
gh because my father didn't marry my mother," I said. "That a
t quiet in a
erms," Konrad said, sliding papers acr
"Three years of my life and Five thousand dollars is wh
at you a
se I was stupid enough to think love meant something in this family. I sighed
put it in my bag next to the pregnancy t
sn't, and it won't
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