After a long, heavy silence, Timothy finally made up his mind to leave.

The way things stood, Jessica simply had no intention of speaking to him.

He'd known it, really.

The real reason for coming today was to get a strand of Jessica's hair for a DNA test with Vince.

But once he saw her, he couldn't help but try to talk things through.

Now that he'd gotten what he came for, the divorce...

Well, that could wait.

He'd wait for her to be ready in ten days, just like she'd said.

After Timothy left, Vince messaged Jessica.

Come home. He's gone.

When Jessica got back, Vince was waiting in the living room.

"Sorry," he said, sounding a little sheepish. "He kept pressing me about where you were. I tried to throw him off, but I guess something got into him and he just

showed up anyway."

blame Vince at

the one to help her leave in the first place. It was only natural that

have felt caught in the

worry," Vince reassured her. "He promised me he

worried she might pack up and move

Timothy wanted

hope for was that he'd

what else to say to Vince except

weeks. Without him, she doubted she ever

her grandmother-if it weren't for the connections her grandmother left behind, and the way she'd taught Jessica to make paper-cut art, she probably would never have met Vince. And Vince would never have

she seemed a little more at ease,

everything that had happened, Jessica

now, she was no

as a divorce had turned into a drawn-out

these years pouring every ounce of herself into Timothy and their son,

why, when it came time to leave, she felt

a breaking point-thanks to the courts,

Otherwise, who knew how

online to look up well-known hospitals nearby that specialized in liver cancer, and booked an appointment with

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