Chapter 146

"Jessica, I saw your son with Sheila at the playground this morning. I went out of

my way to tell you, and this is how you react?"

Sallie's temper was notorious-she and Timothy were siblings, but their personalities couldn't have been more different.

Jessica's grip tightened on the taxi door handle.

She hesitated for a moment, then made up her mind and yanked the door open.

Sliding into the back seat, she managed a resigned little smile.

"A family day at the park," they'd said. What a lie.

The real family of three was them, not her.

Thank God she hadn't gone to watch herself be humiliated.

Sallie was so angry she looked about ready to explode. Jessica was just ignoring her!

Her son was practically being stolen away, and she didn't even care.

No wonder Henry's heart was full of Sheila.

Jessica only had herself to blame-no backbone at all.

It was enough to make Sallie furious.

She slammed on her sunglasses and stalked off.

driver glanced

a moment, Jessica realized she had no

Timothy wanted to find her, it

he probably

quick

SUV had barely left the neighborhood when he spun the

where Jessica had fallen

driveway, parked,

foyer, he was

are you looking

lips together. "It's nothing. Go on with your

disappeared down

she hadn't come

for his study,

a stack of

dragged out his chair, sat down, and lit

gaze swept across

Irreconcilable differences...

marriage

words were like a knife to

a deep drag, then crushed the cigarette into

by one, he fed the divorce papers into the

His phone rang.

It was Henry.

where are you? Aren't

"I'll be there soon."

grabbed his keys and

time, Jessica had arrived at

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