MARRIED IN HATRED: FELL IN LOVE AFTER SHE LEFT?
"Elena sends her congratulations too. She wanted to come, but her clinic couldn't spare her this week. She made me promise to send pictures."
I found myself, watching my family gathered around Jolene, genuinely overwhelmed by how far all of us had traveled from the cold, fractured people we'd been at the start of this marriage, Rebecca's careful cruelty, Hailey's practiced boredom, Victor's suspicious distance, myself locked entirely behind managed silence instead of honest feeling.
Rebecca pulled me aside later that evening, once the initial celebration had settled into quieter conversation over dinner, something careful in her expression that told me she had more to say than she'd offered