Chapter 34
Andrews Farm
Luna stared at her cell phone long after the call with Jerome had ended. He planned to start home by five. He had sounded so tired. So miserable.
No matter what Vee said, this was partly Luna’s fault. She had known that Jackie hated her. She should have helped her after what happened on the stairs, no matter the horrible woman’s intent. What good was going to church every Sunday if she wasn’t going to be a good person?
Only a bad person walked away from someone calling out for help.
Luna rubbed her belly and cried. She wanted to be a good mother. A good wife. A good person. But what if that hardware receipt wasn’t wrong and she was somehow confused?
No, she was certain of what happened. The account she told Vee was true. Jackie had tried to push her down the stairs.
And Vee was right about that too. Jackie hadn’t only tried to push her down the stairs; she had tried to kill Luna and the baby.
Anger lit inside her. She needed to tell Jerome what had happened. All of it. But what if he didn’t believe her? Jackie was his mother. Was he going to believe such a horrible thing about his own mother?
But it was true. No matter what anyone said, it was true.
The only problem was that hardware store receipt.
Luna got to her feet. She couldn’t take this anymore.
She had to know if there was an issue with the time she’d checked out at the hardware store or something else she had forgotten.
Maybe she had made another stop and couldn’t remember.
She may have driven around . . . God, she just wasn’t sure anymore.
She grabbed her phone and her fob and walked out of her beautiful home. The one her sweet husband had built for her and their family.
Luna couldn’t sit back and let anyone ruin their lives.