Chapter 83: Not Outside
Amanda's POV
The first thing I felt was embarrassment.
Not the slow kind — the abrupt kind, rising from my stomach into my throat, the way it does when a teacher calls your name in class and you realize you had been staring out the window the whole time.
Then came the panic.
It came in small pul...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: "You're not done. You still have a way out of this."
2. Chapter 2: "Let Her In"
3. Chapter 3: "The bond between a mother and her child isn't something you can write into a contract."
4. Chapter 4: "Looking forward to working with you."
5. Chapter 5: The Mountain That Had Been Crushing Me
6. Chapter 6: "How Did You Do That?"
7. Chapter 7: There Is Only One of You in This World
8. Chapter 8: "If Only Mia Had Been Like That"
9. Chapter 9: I'm Better at This Than You
10. Chapter 10: Like a Handful of Quiet Light
11. Chapter 11: "This child is loved. This child is protected."
12. Chapter 12: You Dare Lecture My Wife
13. Chapter 13: That's What a Morrison Does
14. Chapter 14: *He Called My Name*
15. Chapter 15: "This Place Has a Temperature"
16. Chapter 16: "Emma and Klaib Look So Much Alike"
17. Chapter 17: I'll Lend You My Mom for a While
18. Chapter 18: *"That's the Garment's Problem, Not Yours"*
19. Chapter 19: *I Just Wore the Name for a While*
20. Chapter 20: You Just Have to Swallow It
21. Chapter 21: *Give It Back to You*
22. Chapter 22: He's Not a Child Nobody Wanted
23. Chapter 23: "Amanda Is My Mom"
24. Chapter 24: Love Is the One Thing That Stays
25. Chapter 25: He Didn't Hear You
26. Chapter 26: Mama
27. Chapter 27: I'm Sorry
28. Chapter 28: "Mommy!"
29. Chapter 29: Go Give Caleb a Surprise
30. Chapter 30: He's Got Someone in His Corner
31. Chapter 31: "She's my mom—Amanda. She's my mom."
32. Chapter 32: Find the thing that belongs to yo
33. Chapter 33: "He and I — Same Suffering"
34. Chapter 34: "Amanda. Mama. Cello."
35. Chapter 35: "Who Said That?"
36. Chapter 36: A Reckoning
37. Chapter 37: Women Making Life Hard for Other Women
38. Chapter 38: How did you do it?
39. Chapter 39: Follow Me
40. Chapter 40: My Job Here Is Done
41. Chapter 41: Is That Still Me?
42. Chapter 42: I Also Agree
43. Chapter 43: "You You You—!"
44. Chapter 44: The truth is… the reason I don't like eating that is—
45. Chapter 45: He Doesn't Want to Be Your Son
46. Chapter 46: "What are you doing here?"
47. Chapter 47: You're a Whore Now
48. Chapter 48: You're Never Getting Away From Me
49. Chapter 49: He had taken Emma.
50. Chapter 50: My Husband Has Money
51. Chapter 51: I'll Wait for You
52. Chapter 52: She's More of a Hero Than Anything You've Ever Done
53. Chapter 53: Hand and Back Are Both Flesh
54. Chapter 54: Daddy
55. Chapter 55: Men Are All the Same
56. Chapter 56: You'd Stay for Them, Wouldn't You
57. Chapter 57: Half an Hour
58. Chapter 58: Get On My Back
59. Chapter 59: You Don't Know What Day It Is?
60. Chapter 60: Your Good Days Are Over
61. Chapter 61: "Where Is Emma?"
62. Chapter 62: Thirty thousand
63. Chapter 63: This is absolutely outrageous!
64. Chapter 64: For You and Mom
65. Chapter 65: You're Doing Fine as a Father Now
66. Chapter 66: I Have Money
67. Chapter 67: I Don't Need Love Anymore
68. Chapter 68: What Kind of Man Is Charles
69. Chapter 69: I'll Try
70. Chapter 70: Can we play a game with you?
71. Chapter 71: Would Do Again
72. Chapter 72: I Love You
73. Chapter 73: The Three Words
74. Chapter 74: There's Me Here
75. Chapter 75: This Is Your Husband?
76. Chapter 76: I would not allow anyone the chance to take Amanda away from me.
77. Chapter 77: What Counts as a Date
78. Chapter 78: The Sound of a Woman's Voice
79. Chapter 79: Come See You Looking My Best
80. Chapter 80: "Trust Me Once"
81. Chapter 81: "You don't need to thank me."
82. Chapter 82: "I'm Not Sure I've Come at a Good Time"
83. Chapter 83: Not Outside
84. Chapter 84: A Free Caregiver
85. Chapter 85: "You Love Me, But Not Enough"
86. Chapter 86: The Heart
87. Chapter 87: A Secret Means You Can't Say
88. Chapter 88: Not a Single Birthday
89. Chapter 89: Like Your Father
90. Chapter 90: I Was Numb
91. Chapter 91: This Joke Isn't Funny
92. Chapter 92: I Almost Couldn't Say No
93. Chapter 93: Let Me Kiss You, Okay?
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