A Father's Betrayal: The Marrow

something long buried in Adri

y tampered with the condom. T

rted I was. Once there was a life

was no match, you were anxious all the time. Now that there is one,

tapped on his phone, t

She'll arrange my schedule. I'll go to the hospital with her. I'll personally walk her

steadying breaths, just as I was about to s

t up with the

After only a few words, he h

he hospital. We're done talking about Nina. If

into the night, I realized

me, why would he ever

arrow match was given to someone else"-and

y cut straight through me,

urt Nina. But now I understood-no matter how much I

this marriage had lost even

d took out the jewelry I had hid

brilliance, dazzling and b

the invitation again, acce

one of the top jewelry desi

rst saw it yesterday. Now

eaned against Adrian's sh

called you so late... but I didn't have anyo

nto his arms, gentl

st a reaction to the medication. Nothing seriou

her head, ag

against his throat,

ips were right there-one step

eating rapidly. Just as Sophia wa

k from the fever, yet still carried a soft, coaxing sweetne

ophia, a strange f

en he looked at her, Nora's fac

ushing aside the impulse, an

e thing. You're a

scene, the brief flicker of reg

s status too well. That was why

out her and her daughter. Being w

Foster

g everything, the first light

of her things, we could finally leave

ed together. I sat there in silence, unmo

ere are

favorite toys into the suit

never came back. Why isn't he here this morning ei

so overwhelmed with sorrow tha

, and can only see your dad once in a

s been like that? Mom,

nds and threw herself into my

suitcase along, and sent Adr

get a d