CHAPTER 12

Chapter 12

Alyssa unbuckled her son from his car seat and walked up to the house, heart racing and anxious. She already knew what to expect—happiness, joy, regret, backlash. Her sister and father were the two most important people in her life. She had left them, ran away to paradise with a man they never met, and now was back to introduce her son to them. Things weren’t going to go over well.

Jayceon cooed and looked around trying to touch the pretty lantern decorations that her sister hung last year. It was cool November now. A full month and some weeks since she has been back and she wished Jason was here with her, but she didn’t want to invite him yet until she was comfortable enough with them first. She knew her father. He wasn’t Dan, but he would surely feel some kind of way concerning his daughter and this man.

Nekiesha, her sister, opened the door first screaming and yelling, “Who is it!” as loud as she