My new body would be my biggest payoff for going to the wedding — to show Jack what he could still have. I looked better than I had in a long time, certainly since I’d last seen him two months earlier.
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But that guy’s been calling you.”
I nodded. “Okay. The next time Bradley calls, I’ll say yes.”
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No, Mom. You don’t have time for that. You’ve got to call him. Tonight.”
Even as I wanted to hit my head against the wall, repeatedly, I said, “Okay.”
Gina smiled for the first time in days.
My stomach hurt.
She headed for the kitchen. “I’ll get the phone for you.”
When the doorbell rang, I reached for the last bag of trash to make one last trip to the spare bedroom. “You get the door.”
Gina snagged the bag first. “No, Mom. You promised you’d talk to Dad.” As she sailed from the room, she tossed back over her shoulder, “And be nice.”
Ah, yes. I’d be sure to be nice to the man who’d ripped my marriage apart and ruined my children’s lives forever and still didn’t want me back. What else would I be?
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