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

first place.

felt caught in the middle. There was

me he won't

might pack up

honestly, moving wouldn't do much good. If Timothy wanted to find her, he'd always find

thing she could hope for was that he'd eventually

to say to Vince except thank

so much for her these past weeks. Without him, she

the way she'd taught Jessica to make paper-cut art, she probably would never have met Vince. And Vince would never have offered

stayed with her until she seemed a little more

had happened, Jessica

right now, she was no match for

divorce had turned into

ounce of herself into

came time to leave, she felt so

breaking point-thanks to

her marriage. Otherwise, who knew how much longer it would have dragged

that specialized in liver cancer, and booked an

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