Jackie POV
I kept looking from Mom to Dad, then from Dad back to Mom, my eyes moving between them as if the answers I needed would suddenly appear on their faces.
I truly didn’t know what to do-or even what to think. I clearly remembered Mom telling me she was going to meet Dad, and now here he was, standing in front of me, asking where she had been. Nothing made sense, and the confusion weighed heavily on my chest.
My mind was already crowded with too many thoughts. Tony and his strange behavior toward me. The way he made me feel-conflicted, awakened, unsettled. And now this, Mom’s unexplained movements and the silent tension hanging in the air between my parents. It all felt like too much for one heart to handle.
Without saying a word, I decided to head upstairs. I needed space. I ne
