CATHERINE
I’ve always thought choices were supposed to be hard. That’s what people say, isn’t it? Life is full of gray areas, decisions that rip you apart because there’s no right answer. But when it came to Ellie, there was no question.
If I had to choose between Ronald and Ellie, the choice wasn’t even a choice at all.
Ellie would always come first.
Still, that didn’t make this any easier. My life wasn’t simple. And if Marcus was right… If Ronald had been the one who sent people after him, what did that say about the man I thought I knew?
By the time Ellie drifted off to sleep, I was barely holding myself together. She was curled up beside me on the couch, her hand tangled in my sweater like she was holding on for her dear life… God knows what she was dreaming of. I waited until her
