❀ Amy ❀
Thankfully, I managed to stop crying. We both did. I wanted them in our lives, and now that they were here, it was time to update them. Or at least, my mother.
“Do you want to know everything?" I questioned, and my mother looked at me gently and nodded.
"Yes. I do,” she said as she turned in her seat to look at me. I drew in a deep breath and let it out slowly.
“Darren got addicted to gambling,”
“Oh, yes…we heard about that,”
“His addiction… caused many problems and…our relationship…well, it broke,” I told her, and she stared at me in surprise. “His parents…his mother, Angelique, she was the one who offered me this fresh start,” I looked around the backyard and smiled. “At first, I didn’t want to leave. Not because I thought Darren would change or that we could be a family,
