Chapter Six
Michaela
Ten Years Ago
Once upon a time, I loved a boy who promised me forever.
Jonny Acero and I were good people despite our parents, not because of them.
His grandparents raised him. His mother was one of those young women who never had their act together, always making one wrong choice after another, and he didn’t know who his father was. He could only guess what the man looked like by his own characteristics that didn’t match her family.
My hoity-toity mother considered my high-school sweetheart the boy from the wrong side of the tracks, so when we got engaged on graduation night, she cut me off. I had to make my own way if I was going to ruin my life.
wrong side of the trackswas going to ruin my lifeFine by me.
I knew this was coming even if she didn’t. I’d had a
