Ashley
I closed my eyes, willing the sting of tears away. He cheated on me with my step sister Helly. It was one of the things that tore us apart. I suffered through the rollercoaster of hope and despair each month. In the end, the constant disappointment and hurt, the feeling of failure, it had poisoned what we once had. Despite this fact, they wanted them to get married like nothing happened.
" I don't need anyone to take care of me and my son," Zach retorted. "And I'm not ready for marriage. Not with Helly, not with anyone."
His mom pressed. " You can't keep putting your life on hold because of what happened with Ashley."
I flinched at the sound of my name. What happened with our marriage? As if our entire marriage, the years we'd spent building a life together, had been summed up
