A Wish Upon a Star by Jeannie Levig

Author:Jeannie Levig [Levig, Jeannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635552751
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2018-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Leslie sat at her computer desk where she’d positioned it in front of her living room window and watched Erica’s car pass by her house. It’d been two days since Erica’s visit Wednesday evening. When Erica had left, Leslie had spent the rest of the night feeling sorry for herself, then finally cried herself to sleep at about four in the morning. When she awakened Thursday, it hit her what an ass she’d been. She’d been so thoughtless and selfish when she’d made her decision to pull back, to create the distance she thought her heart needed from everything she’d found next door. She hadn’t been thinking at all. She’d just been running.

Her plan hadn’t worked, though. For the entire week and a half she’d forced herself to stay away from Siena and Erica, she’d been a wreck. She’d had difficulty sleeping and eating. When they weren’t home, she’d spent most of her time wondering where they were or what they were doing, and when they were, she’d had to force herself to stay in her own house, and sometimes even leave, to keep from throwing her whole plan out the window. And all of it hurt like hell. When she’d first seen Erica through the French doors on her deck, Leslie’s breath had caught. It seemed like so long since she’d seen her up close. She’d wanted so badly to take her in her arms and kiss her. It’d surprised her. But then the look on Erica’s face had registered, and the only thought in Leslie’s head had been, is Siena okay? Everything combined, she’d been in no shape to face Erica’s wrath, but she’d had no choice.

And wrath it’d been. Erica had come at her like a lioness protecting her cub, and Leslie knew from the moment Erica pushed past her that she deserved whatever was coming. She’d barely had time to steel herself before it hit. She’d been about to try to apologize when Erica had brought up Elijah and Leslie lost her ability to speak. Then it felt as though Erica had thrown him in her face when she’d said, A little boy you won’t even admit… Leslie had cut her off, but she knew the next words—won’t even admit to having. And Erica was right. Leslie had denied him, denied ever having him, ever loving him. And now she was trying to do the same thing—albeit differently, but still—with Siena. She deserved Erica’s anger, but more than that, she understood it. When someone hurt your child, all bets were off.

On top of that, it’d broken Leslie’s heart to hear Siena thought Leslie was staying away because she thought Siena was weird. What had she been thinking? Kids internalized everything. She couldn’t simply vanish from Siena’s daily life after the way they’d connected without there being a price to pay—for both of them, but Siena’s would be higher because she didn’t understand. If Leslie truly hadn’t wanted another child in her life and in her heart, she should have walked away that first day.

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