Blessing

“I hate it when Mommy and Daddy fight.” Lia sidled up beside me. “Do you think they’re going to get a divorce?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“I focused on keeping my lungs steady despite the very acute awareness of what part of my body was mere inches from his face. “Too bad I didn’t wear a dress,” I murmured.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“She asked you to leave with her?” Teller asked. “No—the opposite. She was going to leave without saying anything, but at the last minute, she decided she couldn’t go without telling me goodbye.” He laughed, soft and sad. “Your sweet, selfless mother... she wanted me to have closure so I could move on without her. And something in me clicked. I took one look at the two of you, and I realized there was no sacrifice I wouldn’t make to keep you both in my life.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“I’d tried, over the past few months, not to think about the way that Laurel had been conceived.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood