Blake need to find new housing, deal with the wedding cancellation, address the lies she’s told.”
“But the personal relationship…”
“Needs time,” my mother supplied. “Distance can bring clarity for both of you.”
“Are you angry with me?” I asked suddenly. “For canceling the wedding. For selling the house. For leaving?”
Helen considered this.
“Disappointed, perhaps—not in your actions, but in the situation that made them necessary. No grandmother wants to see her family fractured.”
“But angry?” She shook her head. “No. You’ve carried Amber single-handedly since she was five.
