Reclaiming Aria
Except she wasn’t coming back.
“Where are you going?” Aria asked, heart crawling into her throat.
Marlene turned. Her eyes were glassy, swollen. Her voice, when it came, was soft. “Upstate. To your Aunt Clara’s. I need… I need to breathe, baby.”
“What about Dad?” Aria whispered.
Her mother glanced down the hallway, toward the den where Harold sat—same chair, same robe, same dead stare. He hadn’t spoken in three days.
“He doesn’t even know I’m leaving,” Marlene said, voice cracking. “I told him. I begged him. He’s not—he’s not here anymore, Aria.”
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