Chapter 44 FALSE FACADE

I was caught off guard. When I tried to open my lips, no word emerged from them. I stood in my place like a motionless statue while my heart raced inside my rib cage. For the very first time in my five year marriage with Grey, Mom caught us fighting right in the middle of her hospital room. It was something I never wished her to witness but she already did.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and forced myself to speak “Mom, we—” The words were suspended from my lips.

“We're not fighting, Mom.” Grey cut in. He had spoken the words in the gentlest

way possible as though we hadn't been fighting moments ago. “Right, Lily?” He added as he looked at me with a smile on his lips.