The Day I Went Dark, My Family Broke
On our wedding anniversary night, my husband, Lucian Moore, comes home with a seven-year-old orphan named Chloe Martin.
He even hands her the necklace he bought me for our anniversary and lets her play with it like a toy.
Because of her, my son, Ryan Moore, shouts at me for the first time. "You're a bad woman! I don't want you to be my mommy!"
I watch the three of them sitting together, warm and cozy, and I say nothing. Instead, I buy a ticket to leave the country.
At first, they think I'm just acting out and will come home in a few days.
But when they return from Feanland after celebrating Chloe's birthday, they find out I've joined a ten-year classified research project and will not come back again.
At that moment, they fall apart.