SARAH
“Wait!” I call out.
Malachi closes the door behind me and starts to walk away.
They’re mad at something…maybe me, and I get it. But they cannot blame me for wanting to know what is going on.
“Why won’t any of you talk to me? What’s happening? That was your father out there. Why don’t you want him to see me?” I turn towards Ronan who also has his back to me.
Are they just going to let me stand there in the living room while they retire into their bedrooms?
Yes. I know I was stubborn. Clearly, there’s something going on with their dad, and I shouldn’t have been here to see it.
Still, I have. So I need them to open up to me. I’m here for them as much as they’ve been for me.
Why?
Why can’t they see it?
“Is he gone yet?”
Jaxon’s voice cuts through the heavy silence. A
