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My eyes popped open as I read between the lines That wasn’t just a stab at e as my employment status
Grittingyou can’t take back”
We’d vowed never to use divorce as a threat, and for the ood job But in the sixon her lips alutted shells around her for so long I didn’t kno to do anything else
Tears sparkled in her blue eyes “You promised me, Eason You swore to nancy test You kno I grew up and you vowed to me our baby wouldn’t have to do the same”
All of this was true
But while I’d been struggling to give her all the things I’d dreamed about when she’d walked down the aisle with a lace vail covering a huge smile, the life we currently had was a far cry frorown up in
“That’s not fair” I pointedly swung aze around our three-bedroom, two-bath, two-thousand-square-foot home we’d dubbed Maxwell Manor It was farther away froinally wanted, but it was one of the few places we could afford with a basement to accommodate a studio A studio that we’d never built because…well, life had happened
More accurately, Luna Jade Maxwell had happened
We hadn’t been planning on kids yet Jessica and I had a lot of living to do before anted to start a fa about best laid plans? The ink oncontract wasn’t even dry when I’d found Jessica on her hands and knees in our bathroo a positive pregnancy test
Was the ti not Especially when, a few months later, my label scrapped my album and then dropped me completely
Was Luna, with all her thick, brown hair and a set of honey-colored eyes that were so uniquely hers it was as if she defined the color, thethat had ever happened to me? Unquestionably
My shoulders sagged and I pinched the bridge of my nose “Look, can we put a pin in this for a while? I need to take a shower and startappetizers, and as soon as Luna wakes up, I’ll run her over to Rob and Bree’s”
“Oh right, because we can’t afford a babysitter, so we have to lean onout with them”
I let out a groan Jesus, she never missed an opportunity to take a hunk of my flesh She acted like I was the only adult who lived in the house She’d wanted to be a stay-at-hos got tough and , Jessica never once stepped up to ask what she could do or how she could help our family And yes, I was bitter about it, but you didn’t seethat shit out on her