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“What?”

“Yep, she was waiting for me at my car,” I tell him, then continue to explain what we discussed.

“Do you believe her?” he asks when I’m done.

“Yeah,” I say honestly. “She loves Owen too much to jeopardize their relationship. She knows she’d lose the only person connected to her son if she tried to harm you.”

“So she knows about us then?”

“She does but wasn’t that shocked, though. It was a good conversation and one we needed to have, but I told her I wasn’t ready to leave Owen with her yet.”

“How’d she take it?”

“Uhh…she understood but was still upset.”

“Well, I guess it’s nice to know she’s not trying to kill me, but it’s still worrisome that Brittany’s MIA.”

“Anthony hasn’t been in school either, so something is up. I still think she’s planning something.”

“It’d have to be something really good with Eric around.”

“Hopefully, she’ll give up and go away,” I say.

“So besides that, how was your day?”

Noah has me smiling and laughing in seconds as usual. We talk about work and what we hope to do this weekend at the house.

“Mom!” Owen calls.

“Oh shoot, I better go. Owen’s yelling for me.”

“Alright, baby. I love you. Text me before bed so I can say good night, okay?”

“I will. Love you too.”

Once we hang up, I walk to the bathroom and peek inside. “What is it?”

“I forgot a towel.”

I chuckle. “Hold on.”

After Owen is dried and in his pajamas, we curl up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and watch one of his favorite cartoons. As he’s sucked into the screen, I decide to group text Gemma and Everleigh to give them an update.

Everleigh

She WHAT?

Gemma

OMG…the audacity!

Katie

Put down your pitchforks. Let me explain.

After several long messages, I finally get out the whole story about Loretta and what happened with Brittany and Gabe. It feels like Deja vu as I’ve now repeated this twice in just a few hours.

Everleigh