Jeremy demanded more money, and things gotout of control. Now that he’s gone, I’ve decided to move on and keep what I have.
Thank you for everything.
Goodbye!
Nyah
“This can’t be,” I whispered. “This isn’t true.” I scanned their faces, desperation rising fast. “Tell me this is not true!”
“Darling, it is,” my mother said, rushing toward me. “She never loved you. She was only after the money.” She pulled me into her arms.
I caught a flicker of a smile playing at the corner of her lips just before she suppressed it.Did I imagine that smile on her face?
I sank to my knees, the letter crumpling slightly in my hand as I shut my eyes. “It can’t end like this,” I said hoarsely. “I won’t let it.”
The sudden shift from hope to betrayal felt like the ground had been ripped out from beneath me.
I needed answers.
She couldn’t just disappear after everything. She couldn’t betray my family—and me—like this and get away with it. But even as the grief crushed me, something harder began to take shape beneath it. My jaw tightened.
I was going to find her… no matter what it took.
EPILOGUE - NYAH NOW JIYA
Sitting in the Tipsy Cow Restaurant in the Cowichan Bay area, I hung my head in my hands while Lucas munched on his cheeseburger.
It had been two months since I’d left Vancouver. Making this place my new home still didn’t feel possible. My bump was small, barely noticeable, even though I was four months pregnant. I stared out the restaurant window as rain began to fall, the drops blurring the view. I wondered how Caleb was doing—if he was healing, if he was angry, if he ever thought about me.
I sighed and looked at Lucas, and then I felt it—the first faint flutter low in my belly. Life, undeniable and real, stirred inside me.
