Chapter 260. Jennifer At the Door.
SEDONA
I hadn't expected it to land the way it landed.
I had stood on the porch and said everything was true. Everything steadily okay. Every word exactly the way Adaeze would have wanted me to say it, factually and unmoved. I had watched Sherry's car pull away, and I felt, for a moment, the satisfaction of having held my own ground completely.
Then the satisfaction drained out of me. All at once. And what was left underneath it was the old pull. The way that I had forced myself to accept her insults because I wanted her to accept me as her daughter in law.
The same woman who had once stood in a hallway in Chicago and told me, plainly, that I had always been a placeholder. That Logan had only ever married me because the timing had been convenient. Th
