On my wedding day, I walked in with a black eye. My fiancé stood beside me… and when he looked at my mother, he smiled. Then he said, “She needed to learn.” The room burst into laughter. And that’s when I did something no one expected.
I need to see this through to the point where no one can twist it anymore.”
Megan crossed her arms, then uncrossed them, restless and tense. She had been up with Olivia until nearly three in the morning, icing the bruise, making tea that went untouched, and saying all the things Olivia had once longed to hear from someone who actually loved her.
