Lovely Lies
Riley looked at the crowd behind me and shook her head as she shifted the baby from the cradle of her arm to her chest.
“I never left you, Mak. I was always with you, I love you.”
“I love you, too, so don’t do this. Just talk to me. Stay with me and talk to me.”
“There’s nothing to talk about. There’s no going back now.”
“What? No. That’s not true. We have…” My voice cracked and the lump in my throat grew. I gulped in a stuttering breath and tried again. “We have so much to talk about. That’s why you called me here, right? So we could talk? I have…I have so much to tell you. You have a baby. I would love to meet her and…and spoil her rotten. Put the gun down, Ri. There’s so much more for us