Chapter 36

• Anna.
• I stand in the hallway between the two doors where my son and my boyfriend are, not exactly sure what I should do. Jeremy must be devastated right now; I don't know how he'll react to seeing me, to me, the woman who betrayed him. It will pass; he's only five, but I never thought he would take it this hard.
• I didn't want to lie, but what was I supposed to say? "Your father abandoned you?" I couldn't tell him that; he would think his own father left him because he wasn't loved. Jeremy is very sensitive about those things.