Chapter 804

"No worries!" Fanny said, tucking her phone away with a casual flick.

When someone says it's nothing, it's usually something. But she wasn't ready to spill the beans, and I wasn't about to pry.

Probably had something to do with Yates.

It's hard to completely cut ties sometimes. It's like trying to give up chocolate; the craving just never really goes away. Even though Conrad and I had been apart for ages and I was already seeing someone new, we still had this constant back-and- forth thing. Not necessarily about love, but there were always other strings attached.

Jacqueline found out I was pregnant, and she showed up at my place with a basket full of goodies.

"How wonderful, Felicia's going to be a mom!" she beamed.

"Felicia, the hospital's no place for you-terrible food and all. Why not come home? I'll take care of you like my own," she insisted.

though my baby had nothing to do with the Wagner family. Her joy was more about me still being her girl, the one she raised, even if I wasn't the daughter-in-law

I couldn't deny that in the ten years with them, they'd genuinely cared for and protected me, even if guilt played

Wagner to look after. Adding me to the mix would just wear you out. Besides, being at

It was the complicated ties with her sons-Conrad still lingering with old feelings

in feel like

QUMS

be forgotten. There's always that little knot

catching the light. She sighed softly

wasn't necessary, but the plea in her eyes

face lit up with a smile that deepened the lines around her eyes. I paused, taken aback by her wrinkles-I didn't remember them being there

over the moon. He even had a few extra bites of oatmeal,"

Wagner really that ill now, counting bites

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