I ARRIVED AT MY BEACH HOUSE EXPECTING PEACE-YILUX

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He gestured around.

At the mess.

At the strangers.

At everything that didn’t belong.

Megan’s face hardened.

“So what?” she said. “You’re choosing her over me now?”

There it was.

The real question.

The one hiding underneath everything else.

I stepped forward then.

Just enough for the screen door to creak.

Every head turned.

Robert saw me.

For a second… he looked continue reading …