Annabel's POV

“You didn't think I'd miss their happy day, did you?”

I laughed, my heart felt free with Scott, “Well, if you were absent I'd have thought you chose to stay with Michelle to comfort her.”

We began to walk into the hall as he spoke, “She does not need comfort, Annabel.”

“After signing divorce papers from the man she nearly killed me for, I dare say she would.” I returned.

We chose an area clear enough to see the kids’ performance and took our seats.

“You're wrong,” he told me, “Michelle was vicious many years ago. She loved me to a fault but she's past that now. We...