I had given up a job overseas for Derek and taken an internship at home instead. Later, when I got pregnant, I had quit to focus on the baby.
A few months away hadn't erased all my experience.
"Ma'am, your flowers."
I smiled and thanked the florist, then walked out. Derek followed me.
"Are you going to see Mom?"
"Don't you dare call her that."
Derek felt a stab of pain, and his mouth twisted.
"I didn't know what was happening to your mother. I thought..."
"You thought I was lying. You thought I was being unreasonable again, picking another fight with Sabrina."
Derek wanted to deny it. But that was exactly what he had thought.
Still unwilling to let it go, he said, "But Sabrina never went to your mother's house. Why did you say it was her? If you hadn't said that, I would've gone.
