The Man I Loved Disappeared the Exact Night I Told Him We Were Having a Baby — Two Weeks Later He Knelt in My Grandfather’s Gravel Driveway and Told Me He Hadn’t Run From Fatherhood; He’d Run to Burn Down His Entire Inheritance So His Family Could Never Come for Our Child

Fight for her.

Drag you into a war over that timber money that people have died inside of.

I promised your mother, on her deathbed, that I would keep you far away from those people for the rest of your life.” His voice cracked.

“And you went and fell in love with one.”

Chapter 10 — Why He Ran

“Then why did Ezra run?” I asked.

It was the question that had been eating me alive for two weeks.