Chapter 10
Terrence gave her a quick, cold look. “Bethany isn’t home. Why
didn’t you make breakfast this morning?”
Before she could say anything, Krista interjected, “Terrence, I
know you hate leaves all over the ground, so I told Eliza to clean
up the yard.”
Terrence looked back at Krista and stared at her for a moment.
It was true, he didn’t like leaves everywhere. It reminded him of
when his mom left.
After Emery got in the car, Terrence drove off.
Eliza watched the car go with a grumpy look and sighed, feeling
kinda helpless.
She took out her phone and sent another message to Bethany:
“Mrs. McConnell, when are you coming back?”
When Bethany woke up in the morning, she went straight to the kitchen to start cooking.
She was in the middle of stir–frying when she saw Eliza’s
message, and it suddenly dawned on her that she wasn’t at
Chapter 10
Vespera Villa, and she didn’t need to make breakfast or lunch for
Emery.
The habits she had built up over the years were too hard to
break.
Bethany quickly turned off the stove and dumped the half-
cooked food in the pan into the trash.
She wasn’t much of a cook at first.
When she was twelve, her grandma passed away. She got by on
the paper–cutting skills her grandma taught her, taking odd jobs
here and there. Her meals were simple. As long as it filled her up,
that was good enough.
Later, when she went to college and lived on campus, she mostly
ate at the cafeteria.
Terrence was the kind of guy who was at the top of the food
chain. He had high standards for everything he ate, wore, and
used.
To be a good wife to him, Bethany learned all sorts of things.
Then they had Emery, and she thought about how she could take

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