12
Days went by without a single word from Sawyer. It wasn’t like him; Sawyer was blunt and forceful, he took what he wanted and rarely respected boundaries.
Remy’s heart was brimming with worry by the fourth day, so much so that she could barely concentrate on the simplest tasks as she worked with her mother to clean the house.
Had Sawyer just given in to her request for space? Or was it something more than that?
Her heart shrunk in her chest when she wondered if he’d found out about Shiloh. She kept thinking about that moment, the look on his face when he asked whose kid Shiloh was.
Her heart nearly broke, lying right to his face like that. And yet, the lie came easily, the practice of protecting Shiloh grown into a habit.
She thought he’d believed her, but now with his silence…
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