One Touch One Glance

by Trinity Blacio

Publisher: Freya’s Bower

Excerpt

Tuesday glanced in her rearview mirror into the backseat. Her son, Jared, played with his toy car in his safety seat. Doubts lingered in her mind about staying the weekend with her ex-husband’s sister, Pam. The thought of being in the same room with Ike sent shivers up her spine. One year, four months, and six days ago he’d left her pregnant with his child. He’d denied the baby and had abandoned her. Not even the paternity tests and pictures of their son seemed to help change Ike’s mind.

“I can’t have kids! I told you that from the beginning! The doctors aren’t wrong!” Ike pulled at his hair, his fists clenched. “How could you?” he asked as he leveled a look of disgust at her.

Those were the last words he’d said to her. He’d walked out of her life and shattered her dreams. When the news of his reenlistment and the divorce papers arrived, her world crumbled around her. Broken and battered, her heart went on, warmed by the new life she carried. Jared was the only piece of Ike she had left.

She pulled the car into Pam’s driveway. She wiped at her misty eyes.

Titles by Trinity Blacio