Wanted by Her Lost Love

minus the hours for yesterday’s disappearing act.”She took it with a shaking hand and he turned andwalked out of the kitchen, the door swinging wildlybehind him.Anger and frustration overwhelmed her. Ryan wasstill ruining her life, months later. She yanked off herapron, tossed it in the direction of the hook and thenleft through the back entrance, squinting when shewas nearly blinded by sunlight.As she walked back toward her apartment, shestared at the envelope in her hand. Despair weighedher down until each step felt unbearable. Her damnpride. She should have taken the check Ryan hadgiven her. To hell with him and his nasty accusations.That check represented a way for her to finish schooland provide for her child.She had every reason to refuse it. To tear it upinto little pieces and shove it under his nose. Maybethat’s why she’d held on to it for so long because apart of her wanted the satisfaction of throwing it backat him.It had been important to her that he know shewasn’t some whore to be bought, but what had thatgot her? A dead-end job that sucked the life out of