15-05-2021-052358It-Ends-with-Us

Chapter Nineteen “It’s been six weeks Mom, you gotta get over it.” My mother sighs into the phone. “You’re my only daughter. I c ...

By the time we landed in Vegas, we were completely on the same page. I hear the front door unlocking so I flip onto my back. “Go ...

dinner with Allysa and Marshall. Allysa is due in a few weeks, so she’s forcing as much couple time on us as she can. She’s worr ...

There’s a three-second pause where I think this could go one of two ways. He’s going to leave me. Or he’s going to hurt me. He r ...

He pushed me away. “You fell down the stairs.” But I didn’t fall. He pushed me. Again. That’s twice. You pushed me, Ryle. I can ...

• • • A few minutes pass. Ten, maybe? I can’t stop crying. I still haven’t moved from the bed. I’m scared to look in the mirror. ...

My words knock the breath from him. I see it happen. His back meets the wall behind him and he stares at me silently. In shock. ...

Chapter Twenty I tried salvaging my phone before I fell asleep last night, but it was no use. It was in two completely separate ...

I guess it would make sense that Ryle didn’t call me all night, since he knew what kind of shape my phone was in. I start to ope ...

“Tell her,” Allysa says, her voice angrier now. “She has the right to know, Ryle. She’s your wife. If you don’t tell her, I will ...

reassurance from him. The anticipation of what I’m about to find out is making me nauseous. “No one is dying. I’m not cheating o ...

Ryle walks over and drops down to his knees in front of me. “Lily,” he says. “I knew it would destroy him. I knew exactly what t ...

“When you ran after me last night, I swear I had no intention of hurting you. I was upset and angry. And sometimes when I feel t ...

But if I’m emulating my mother’s behavior, then that would mean Ryle is emulating my father’s behavior. But he isn’t. I have to ...

my hair. “Help me, Lily,” he whispers. “I need you to help me.” He holds me against him and I know deep in my heart that I’m doi ...

Chapter Twenty-One “I’m heading out. You need me to do anything else?” I look up from the paperwork and shake my head. “Thank yo ...

I’d have just left, would that not be going against our marriage vows? For better or for worse. I refuse to give up on my marria ...

face in his hands and he said, “I told you I wanted to be the best in my field, Lily. I told you this the first night we ever me ...

idea if I should knock or just go inside. For all I know, someone could live here. Probably one of her people. I knock on the do ...

I look in the living room at the cathedral ceilings and the huge windows overlooking Boston Harbor. “Lily?” he says from behind ...