The Heart That Breaks by Inglath Cooper

Author:Inglath Cooper [Cooper, Inglath]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC
Published: 2017-12-14T18:30:00+00:00

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Ann-Elizabeth

SHE INSISTS ON taking me to the emergency room.

The bruise on my left hip is alarming. Even I have to admit that.

Henry rides with us and stays in the back seat of the car with the windows cracked while we go inside. Mama had refused to leave him at home, clearly worried that Lance would come back and do something to him.

Sitting in the cubicle, waiting for a doctor to come in, I look at Mama, somehow seeing her with completely new eyes. “Thank you for what you did tonight,” I say.

“Oh, baby, if it weren’t for me, none of it would ever have happened in the first place. How could I be so stupid?”

“It’s not your fault.”

“Yes, it is. Can you ever forgive me?”

“I already have,” I say, reaching out to squeeze her hand with mine.

The curtain swings open, and a young guy in a white lab coat walks in. “I’m Dr. Martin,” he says, looking at me with a compassionate smile. “Want to tell me how you got that awful bruise?”

I glance at Mama. She nods once, and so I tell him. He listens quietly, then says, “Would you like to file a police report?”

“Yes,” she says. “Yes, we would.”

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