The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 349

"Cass?"

Nora waved a hand gently in front of Cassidy's face. "Are you okay?"

Cassidy blinked, snapping out of her daze.

"Parker just video-called me."

"And?"

"He showed me Maddie."

"How is she doing?"

"Recovering well." Cassidy frowned slightly. "That's not the issue."

Nora sat down on the edge of the bed. "Did he say something?"

"He didn't really say anything." Cassidy paused before adding, "It's just... while I was looking at Maddie, a thought suddenly popped into my head."

"What thought?"

"I thought, since Parker loves Maddie so much, maybe I shouldn't get a divorce. Maybe I should give Maddie a complete family."

Nora was taken aback.

Cassidy continued, "The whole reason I had Maddie in the first place was to secure my own future. Isn't that unfair to her? She's so little, she doesn't understand anything, yet she has to face coming from a broken home."

"Am I being too selfish? I mean, I could survive without getting a divorce. At the very least, in front of Maddie, Parker and I could play the part of a loving couple. I could give her a complete family."

"But what? You want to force this act until you can't take it anymore and end up miserable and resentful? Then one day you'll snap and tell Maddie that if it wasn't for her, your life wouldn't have ended up like this."

Cassidy glared at Nora. "Do I look like that kind of person?"

"Of course you don't look like that now." Nora shrugged helplessly. "But can you guarantee you won't turn into that after five or ten years of faking it?"

"I think whether or not you divorce is between you and your husband. If you feel like having Maddie has genuinely changed him into someone bearable, and you're willing to let go of the past and start over, then don't divorce him."

"But staying married *just* to give Maddie a complete family? That logic is entirely backward."

"You were the one who told me that marriage is simple: if you can tolerate it, you stay; if you can't, you leave. There's no point in agonizing over it because hesitation is just self-torture. So why are you torturing yourself now?"

Cassidy fell silent for a long moment before abruptly saying, "Go have a baby. You'll understand once you have one."