She was watching the beginning of the end of everything she had spent a year building.

Chapter 12 — Evelyn

Evelyn lived less than twenty minutes away, and when she opened her front door and saw Marcus holding a suitcase in one hand and Lily gripping the other, she knew instantly that something catastrophic had happened.

She was Hannah’s mother; she had learned to read disaster in a face.

She asked no questions in front of the child.

She simply opened her arms.