Chapter 86

Cali

While I had come to love the idea of being a Mum, the pregnancy itself wasn’t doing me any favours. I felt like a walking time bomb. One minute I was happy, content, the next I was an emotional wreck, and I just couldn’t seem to get a hold on it.

A month ago, someone shouting at me like that would have done little more that rile me, but today, well today it was taking all of my strength not to curl up in a ball on the floor and cry until I couldn’t think any more.

I paced around my office, trying not to listen in to the argument that was still going on downstairs, but I couldn’t help it. Amber was my friend, my first friend, and to have to stand by and listen as her own father spoke to her like that was killing me, but I also knew that right now I just wouldn’t be able to handle it and that was the thought that finally had the tears spilling over.

Eventually the shouting stopped and now I had to actively