The weight of that thought settled deep in my chest, making it hard to breathe for a moment.
Amanda was still pregnant.
She wasn’t gone. She wasn’t out of our lives. And at some point—whether I wanted to face it or not—that reality was going to crash into us.
I was even more terrified of that than of the people Nelson offended.
She was like a poisonous leech that wouldn't just go away.
There was a chance she would take my.place, because she might have already been with Cain before me.
And now she was pregnant.
I didn't really think about before. I didn't really care, until now.
Then more questions arose.
I was living with a man I wasn't married to, yes he might have put a ring on my finger, as en engagement.
But I was living under his roof, as the mother of his child, and not his
