Chapter Twenty-Seven: Out in the Dark

Anna, my new housekeeper and personal assistant, walked with the dresses hanging from her arm. Thomas’s family was doing a dinner get-together and still invited me, even when they knew they had been divorced for months. According to them, we have a child together, and so I was still part of the family. Evans had read the text with me, and even if I didn't want to go, he said it was okay if I went. It would be the first time I would see Thomas in months. I didn't know if I was ready for that. “Come with me.” I had told him, but an emergency work call pulled him off my arms in the early hours of the morning. And so Angela was the only other person who could go alone, as I was not ready to face the Miles family alone. Anna dropped the dresses on the bed. Her face was filled with an admixture of expressions that I could not quickly decipher as I tried to read her. “Do you need me to do anything else?” “No, not at all. I'd take it from here; you can wait in the living room; there is te