PATSY POV:

Two days after that, my mom signed the divorce papers.

She moved out, and the last I heard from her, she was living with Mr. HNG8NCH. We don’t speak anymore, and I’m just fine with that.

Baron sold the house, and we moved into the one he’d taken me to that one sunny day we had together before the police arrived.

We made love the night he was released, twice, then again the next day.

And again and again, as though we couldn’t get enough of each other. We couldn’t.

Two weeks later I was pregnant.

Baron’s tongue is beyond incredible. Within a minute, I’m soaring high as...