CHAPTER TEN
A SURPRISE GUEST
My parents can’t find out about his cheating. That was the very first condition I gave him. Second: no one and I mean, no single f*****g person in the outside world hears a whisper of his infidelity or the child that’s come out of it, not until I say so.
Third: he cuts off all personal contact with Evelyn. If they must speak for professional reasons, it can only be in the presence of others. No private meetings. No messages. No late-night phone calls under the guise of work.
These weren’t suggestions. These were terms.
Now, with my shift at the hospital over, I’ve got the next three days off. Diane’s gone to Everwood Cove to visit her parents, which means I have no solid plans except to breathe and maybe, just maybe, remember what peace feels like.
Right
