"Jessica, I saw your son with Sheila at the playground this morning. I went out of

my way to tell you, and this is how you react?"

Sallie's temper was notorious-she and Timothy were siblings, but their personalities couldn't have been more different.

Jessica's grip tightened on the taxi door handle.

She hesitated for a moment, then made up her mind and yanked the door open.

Sliding into the back seat, she managed a resigned little smile.

"A family day at the park," they'd said. What a lie.

The real family of three was them, not her.

Thank God she hadn't gone to watch herself be humiliated.

Sallie was so angry she looked about ready to explode. Jessica was just ignoring her!

Her son was practically being stolen away, and she didn't even care.

No wonder Henry's heart was full of Sheila.

Jessica only had herself to blame-no backbone at all.

It was enough to make Sallie furious.

She slammed on her sunglasses and stalked off.

the taxi, the driver glanced back at Jessica. "Ma'am, where

she had no idea where she could

wanted to find her, it would be

forgotten. She'd made him angry today; he probably wouldn't bother looking for her right

quick message, and showed the driver: "Train station,

neighborhood when he

had fallen was

the driveway,

the foyer, he was

are you looking for something?"

his lips together. "It's nothing. Go on

disappeared down

hadn't come

study, pulled open a

a stack of

dragged out his chair, sat down,

swept across the

Irreconcilable differences...

marriage

like a knife to the

deep drag, then crushed the cigarette

fed the divorce papers into

His phone rang.

It was Henry.

you? Aren't you

"I'll be there soon."

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