Natalie P.O.V
Settling into life living with Esme and Asher was far easier than I had imagined. I was enjoying watching Asher and Esme together. God, did she love him. The way she giggled when they played, and the way he smiled at her. It tugged at my insides. I was still feeling low. I knew why. I still hadn’t confessed my burden to Ash. I was putting it off, but it was making me feel worse as time went on. How would I say it? Would it break his heart?
Paige was watching me across the dinner table tonight. She and Asher were busy chatting away while Esme kept trying to shove vegetables into the face of her doll which sat beside her; it was quite sweet to watch. But I was barely uttering a word. I hated being so quiet, but it was a way of coping for me. Don’t talk, then people won
