The Wedding Lullaby: Chapter Six
Standing in the guest bedroom, Laurel stared at her suitcase. She’d put off unpacking for days, but she couldn’t procrastinate any longer. She was living with Brett. Not forever, but for a while.
This wasn’t a setback. She would view it as a stepping stone for her and the baby’s future. A way to save enough money to rent an apartment so she could make a life for them in Portland—one to be proud of. If she kept remembering that, maybe she wouldn’t feel as if she’d failed.
Unzipping her suitcase, she stared at the jumble of contents. She removed a framed photo of her family—her mother, her father, and herself. Laurel had been ten at the time, the apple of her parents’ eyes. They’d been so happy then.
How could life have gone so wrong? How could her father
