No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 15



Haley's face turned visibly sour, her usually pale complexion then ghostly white.

Her hands trembled as she clutched her smoothie. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."

She looked so frail and pitiful, almost as if I had been the one to say something out of line, hurting her feelings.

But I didn't stop since I had started, "Maybe you didn't mean to, but it did affect us. It's okay if it was unintentional. Just be more mindful in the future. No need to apologize."

"If Aiden were here, I wouldn't have to bother Rad," Haley said as tears began to fall again.

They say women are as gentle as water, and Haley was the perfect example.

She had carefully chosen her words, leaving me with little to say.

"Felicia," Haley looked at me, her eyes shimmering. "I went to Rad because it was Aiden's dying wish. Rad agreed."

She kept fidgeting with her glass. "If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have sought Rad out."

and jabbing at me

sneered inwardly, 'We're all adults here. Who doesn't have a trick or two up

paused. "It doesn't matter what people say about Conrad, but as a woman, if you're the juicy gossip of the town, and if

but I could play

darkened. "Felicia, all this talk, are you just upset Rad is taking care of me? Are you questioning his loyalty, or is it

a far

colors. "Dropping the

I could say more, Haley burst into tears. "Felicia, I'm sorry if I've wronged you. You can yell

you'

upset, but

out of

I mention

hand on her belly, the picture of motherhood, and made

evident as he looked at me,

so outdated

dared to question me without

for

of

word

after ten years together.