Chapter Twenty-Nine

If she admitted it to no one else, Alison had to admit to herself that she felt a little envious of Vanessa and Martin’s romantic marriage.  She’d been foolish in rejecting Nick’s proposals and, now that she’d made her mind up to marry him, she wondered if it would ever happen.  They’d discussed it briefly when they first saw each other in shadow land, but nothing was said since.  She didn’t want to appear like she was trying to ‘keep up with the Jones’ by bringing the subject up now.

She filled her lungs with air while she thought about all of the mistakes she’d made recently.  She could be married to Nick by now if she hadn’t been so foolish. Now, she was pregnant and unwed with memories of having sex with a man who turned out to be so horrific it made her want to scrub herself clean until she’d eliminated all layers of flesh he’d touched.  She felt dirty beyond reason.  Th