DATING MY DAUGHTER'S EX
"I just want to apologize for everything that has been happening to us these past few days. The fighting, the secrets... all of it. And I want to tell you that I'm choosing you. I'm choosing you over Leo."
For a moment, I just stared at her. Then, a rush of pure, hot joy flooded my chest. She chose me. She picked her daughter over some boy. Everything inside me that had been tight and angry suddenly loosened.
"What changed, Mom?" I asked, a slow smile spreading on my face. "Because, to be honest, I was just about to start a war."
I saw it then— a flicker of something in her eyes. Fear? Worry? But it was gone quickly.