Chapter 5
“He seems nice,” I said finally, still trying to wrap my head around my mom being in a healthy relationship. Or at least it appeared that way.
“He is,” she answered. “I’ve finally found a good one. Not that your father was horrible. I messed that relationship up. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. If I hadn’t slept with Robert your father and I might still be together. Of course, he wouldn’t have found his new wife and I wouldn’t be with Henry. I guess I know things always work out the way they should, but it’s hard at the time to accept that sometimes it means everything gets screwed up in order to make it all right again.”
My throat closed up as she was talking. I knew exactly what she was talking about. At the moment my life appeared to be in the screwed up sta
