Chapter 56

“Yes… the ring,” Andrew mumbled, and he slipped it on her finger with difficulty.

And I do mean with difficulty because the ring looked too small for Amanda’s finger. The pregnancy had added a few pounds. She still looked like herself, just... well, it’s what happens to some pregnant women.

“Didn’t you get my ring resized? I told you my size changed. The doctor talked to us about water retention...” Amanda whispered angrily.

“Stop eating and whining so much, woman,” Andrew snapped back, forcing the ring onto her finger.

Amanda’s face crumbled with the pain of Andrew’s insensitive and brutish comment. I think even the priest heard it because he started making a joke about the exchange of rings.

But none of it reached Amanda. She turned to look at me. Her eyes were filled with tears, and I felt a twinge of pity.

A pity I shouldn’t have felt or shown because my half-sister pulled away from Andrew and came over to me. She wrapped her arms around me, burying her face in my neck, sobbi