Chapter 46:
The Unwelcome Ghost
Mary POV
The problem with ghosts isn’t that they haunt you.
It’s that they leave pieces of themselves behind, and you never know where you’ll find them.
They are like pieces left in the sands of time.
In the grain of a doorframe.
In the scratch of a photograph.
In the eyes of the man you love, when he looks like he’s still thirteen years old and holding his dying mother in his arms.
Nicholas De La Cruz.
The name stuck in my mouth like a warning. A puzzle piece that refused to fit, but wouldn’t let me stop trying.
I still remince the day I saw him, seated at the far end of the table as I was interrogated by Damian De la Cruz, like I was on a job interview.
Even their Step mother, pressured me, but ever since I got married to Andrew, I haven't s
