Chapter 109

Chapter 109

Daisy

I won’t pretend I wasn’t relieved.

腐

The moment I heard the front door close behind Steve and his two bags, something in my chest loosened that I hadn’t even realized had been wound tight. I stood in the corridor and listened to the silence of the house and exhaled slowly

It was time. It had been time for a while, if I was being honest with myself, which I was trying to get better at

I had met Steve two years ago at the lowest point of my life. The divorce from Norman had been sudden and brutal in the way that only things you never saw coming can be, and I had been quietly falling apart inside a very composed exterior when Steve had walked in. A mutual friend’s dinner party. He had been warm and attentive and genuinely kind in a way th had felt like exactly what I needed at a time when I needed something desperately. My company had been in the middle of a legal dispute with a competitor that had my lawyers billing me hourly and my board sending concerned emails at midnight. I had been running on fumes and heartbreak and sheer stubbornness.