Chapter 79

Charity

After the morning I had, my nerves are completely shot, yet here I stand in the Heaven Hill clubhouse` helping my mother-in-law prepare dinner.

“Are you okay?” Denise asks as she gets a good look at me. “Liam told me what happened.”

For the first time in my life I don’t feel comfortable talking in the clubhouse. This is the place I’d come as a teenager when my home life got to be too much. When I found out I was pregnant, this is where I came to tell Drew, and again after the ultrasound, we came straight here. This place is my comfortable, and now it’s ruined because someone here isn’t the family I always thought they were.

“No.” I shake my head. “I’m not okay, and the shittiest thing about it is I don’t feel like we can talk openly about it, obviously. This has always been the place I’ve come to, Denise.”

I’m holding back threatening tears. When I became so emotional, I’ll never know. Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s what’s happening to us right now.