The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)

by Kiersten Modglin

She was too busy feeling sorry for my husband. He was good at that. No one had ever seen him for what he was until it was smacking them in the face, myself included.

Normal doesn’t exist and it never has. There are just these periods where things feel safe and calm, and then, long before we’re ready, everything’s torn apart and we call it change. We look back at our lives and wonder when it all changed, but the truth is…the better question is, when didn’t it? Because we’re always changing. Life is always changing. It’s the rarer moments where things are still.

Instead, I waited, which seemed to make him even more uncomfortable than if I’d started an argument.

“I don’t want you to protect me, Peter. I just want you to be honest with me.

My eyes danced between his as I tried to decide if I could trust him. I wanted to so badly, and I knew that was my downfall. I’d always wanted to trust him, even when he’d proven to me why I shouldn’t.

For so long, I’d thought I could love him hard enough to fix him. All the while, he was breaking me.