When She Returned

by Lucinda Berry

The only people who ever complained about having all kinds of money and not being happy were the ones who had it.

“I’m not a liar,” I said. “We’re all liars,”

“It’s just the small-town mentality of people not liking change and being resistant to anything that doesn’t fall within their traditional ideologies.”

His personality could be intoxicating, and I always came out of them feeling like I’d had two glasses of wine.

I had no idea what I was supposed to do with a traumatized cult survivor who was also my husband’s former wife. Dead wife, technically.

what a f*cking sentence

None of Abner’s maiden selections were a secret. He announced them each night after the fire gathering.

🤮

Abner planned to take them on a soul journey with him, where they would be surrounded by nothing but the light and administered to by the Lord.

“She’s not your baby. This is the Lord’s baby.” He stared at me pointedly.

I’m bout to throw some handsssss

Three weeks old today, but it was like life never existed before her. I couldn’t imagine a life without her in it.

unlike abbi?!