Chapter 57
Mark slammed the porch door and hurried down the stairs. When he reached the driver’s side of his car, he stopped and leaned against it. Damn, Annie was leaving him.
A bitter laugh forced its way up from deep within. What goes around comes around. How many women had he dated and then dumped when they’d become inconvenient? Well, suddenly, he’d become inconvenient.
Something gnawed inside his stomach. He wanted to grab it and force it to go away. The woman he’d been living with for the past month—living with? No, he decided. The woman with whom he’d been playing house. It had been temporary. He knew it. It had been something that had been hanging over both of them.
NoAnnie needed her independence. She couldn’t be confined in a relationship. He’d hoped maybe if she came to sta
