Chapter 9
KalWhen Kal woke, Merit was gone.
Of course.
His communicator and work boots were gone, which meant that he was not out on an early morning run but he had, in fact, done the one thing he promised to stop doing.
She was an i***t to believe his sweet promises of delegating responsibility, spending more time at home with her and the children, and trying not leaving her alone.
She couldn’t find it in her to be mad at him for his lies. She was mad at herself for believing all his rubbish. So naïve. So gullible. So desperate for any affection that she’d believed a matchmaking service could find “her perfect match.”
Swindled, that’s had happened to her. She tried not to think about those horrible Tal stereotypes of being crooks and cheats. She didn’t believe that for one moment, n
