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“Open up, Aubrey”

I shake h he can’t see me

“Come on I’m an idiot Just open up, and we’ll talk about this”

I don’t want to Maybe I’s and embarrassed me in front of people who are important to him

I don’t want to talk to him I don’t want him to see me cry

“I need so to turn the knob

I hear him walk away, and I bury my face in a pillow

All I can smell is him

“Damn it,” I mutter and set the pillow aside I stare at the wine but decide against it

I have to work toover, especially when it’s with small children

Instead, I just roll into a ball on the bed and let myself have a cry-fest

I’ve gotten good at keeping a hard shell over the years Being the ho teased a lot

I have thick skin

But I’d let myself soften toward Zane over the past feeeks To trust that he wouldn’t be one of the people who’d hurt s

And yet, here we are

My feelings are hurt, one, and I’m just…sad

I left the condo before the sun ca so I didn’t have to see Zane

Is that chickenshit of me? Yes But I don’t care

It was a brutal h, because the kids are used to being home and in a different routine for a couple of days So, there was so