Her fifth daughter died, so she deleted his bloodline. novel Chapter 102

Chapter 6

I looked up at him. He looked wiped from the flight, but I smiled anyway and grabbed

his arm.

“I thought your flight was tomorrow?”

He kissed my forehead. “I wrapped up early and caught an earlier flight. So, are you going to introduce me?”

Justin and Zoe were staring.

“Right. This is my husband, Parker Lewis. And they’re my…”

I trailed off. What was I supposed to call them

My ex-husband and the woman he left me for

Before I could figure it out, Justin cut in. He stared at me with a look I couldn’t read.

“Your husband is Parker Lewis? When did you get married?”

Zoe looked Parker up and down like she couldn’t believe it.

Parker looked completely at ease. He offered his hand to Justin with a smile that didn’t

reach his eyes.

“I’ve heard a lot about you, Mr. Hayes.”

Justin reached out. “Mr. Lewis, I’ve heard so much about you.”

Just as Justin’s hand extended, Parker smoothly withdrew his.

Zoe kept glancing between the Bentley and Parker’s clothes. I could practically hear the gears turning.

She was trying to figure out why I’d be working a service job if I was married to money.

She didn’t have the nerve to ask with Parker sanding there.

Parker steered me toward the Bentley. The driver waited by the door and opened it as we

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approached.

We pulled away. Parker took my hand.

His hand closed over mine. The warmth felt good.

Just like he’d done before.

I met Parker at the hospital where Harry was staying. His mother had the room next door, and he visited her every day.

That was how we got to know each other.

When I left the recovery center and found out Harry had died, I collapsed at the hospital.

I couldn’t hold it together.

Parker was the one who kept me from falling apart.

After the divorce, I thought about killing myself more times than I could count. I

couldn’t think of a single reason not to.

My family was gone. My husband had cheated. I’d lost my baby.

I’d watch couples laughing together on the street and feel numb. I was alive, but I had

no idea what I was living for.

He stayed close for months. I think he was afraid I’d do something stupid.

I eventually learned Parker’s wife had died five years ago. He knew what it felt like to

have your world fall apart.

He’d been in my shoes. He wanted to get me through it.

What he gave me was real. Justin never came close.

Parker had spent five years grieving his wife. My whole marriage to Justin lasted five

years.

With him, I found my footing again.

We got close. I told him everything.

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We were watching a movie when he proposed

It was called the Shortest Forever. One line stuck with me.

[There are two ways a love story dies: with a slam of a door, or a stop of a heart. So which is the crueler fate? To be a ghost in your own home, or to be haunted by one?]

I sighed. “So who had it worse, you or me?”

Parker smiled and held out his hand. There was a ring in his palm.

He met my eyes. “The one who’s too afraid to move forward.”

“So, Sarah. What do you say? Should we move forward together?”

He was right. Being stuck was the worst part.

They clung to the pain because starting over scared them.

I’d already lost everything. I had nothing left to lose.

I said yes. We’d face whatever came next, together.

That winter, Parker became my warmth.

He was the first light I’d found in the dark.

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