CHAPTER 473

Kirra said when Emma finally made it home.

Emma had been wandering around the city trying to come to terms with what all this meant for her life going forward. She had made some hard decisions, but she felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. It hadn’t helped with the pain in her chest where her heart was currently crumbling away to dust, but at least she knew that she wasn’t going to end up like her mother just because she had fallen in love. Life was always going to throw her curve balls and she just learned something about herself. Despite her previous belief, she was actually strong enough to withstand them, even swing the bat at them, and make the best out of a bad situation.

“Hey, yourself,” she said, sitting at the table opposite Kirra. “Where’s Zoë?”

“She had to go and run some errands.”

“Where’s mum?”

Kirra bit her lip and her eyes teared up. “I don’t know.”

“She’s not here?” Emma asked, sitting up straighter and leaning forward.

“When I got home, Z