After a recent, painful breakup, Madeline Beckett has been diagnosed with amnesia. With a broken relationship and lost memories, can she sort through her problems and find herself? What happens if people decide to use her condition as an advantage? How can she decipher real from fake when all Madeline knows is pain?

Playing Pretend

This somehow makes both zero and perfect sense. I don’t realize how much time has passed until my Mom calls me to dinner. I descend the stairs to find my last delicious home-cooked meal waiting for me. 


After a bunch of oddly-phrased jokes and suspicious hinting, my Mom convinced me that I should leave tomorrow. Apparently, despite the fact that she enjoys my company, I have to leave to practice “responsibility”. 


I didn’t buy it until she suggested that I might have left a stove on. 


“Is there anything I can do to help?” I ask skeptically, inching my way closer to the dinner table. She’s had me help her before, I don’t want to risk being tricked twice. 


“Nope, not this time,” She says genuinely, placing down a freshly baked meatloaf, “You deserve it, you’ve been going through all that junk the entire day!” 


Hearing my mom call what’s left of my childhood “junk” stung. 


Chapter Forty One