“And Annie… I think I’ve spent a long time asking everyone else to be okay with choices I made.”
I read it twice.
Then locked my phone.
I didn’t owe him an answer.
Across the kitchen, Amelia snatched another fry.
“AMELIA!”
“They were on my side, Kelly!”
I didn’t owe him an answer.
I laughed before I could stop myself.
Four children argued around my table while that tiny wedding candle sat unnoticed on the windowsill.
Ryan had changed the shape of our family.
He had never earned the right to decide whether it still existed.
Ryan had changed the shape of our family.
