Chapter Thirty Eight:
Every single step I took on the wooden steps sounded so loud. The echoes of my own steps made me feel like I would lose it, but thankfully, Charlotte had not dared to follow behind me. Had she done that, I think I would have actually lost it and not cared about the thing she's growing in her body.
I felt tears welling up in my eyes and before they could fall, I sucked in a breath and held it to fight them as hard as I could. I could not cry because of her.
It was the anger that made me feel so helpless and in turn made me feel like crying my eyes out. I was so used to crying and picking myself up when it came to Jack. This time, I planned on picking myself up without shedding a single tear over him.
I made it to the top of the stairs with my heart still full of
