Chapter 85 Adeline

• ADELINE
• “Wait, what? How? Aren’t you both still married and Scarlett isn’t one to just let you win over her like that.” I rushed, sounding more like I was ranting than anything else, but panic rose in my chest. In all my thinking of their still being married, I hadn’t stopped to consider what that meant for Johnny, Scarlett was his real mother after all. So after over five years, she wanted custody of him now? Why?! What changed?
• “I don’t understand, can she do that? I thought since you both are divorced, she can’t…” the words caught in my throat as my lips finally caught up with my brain. “She can do that. She can totally take Johnny,” a wedge settled in my throat as realization hit me like a sledgehammer, panic rushed through my blood like an intravenous shot of hard drugs and not the good kind, the kind that blurred out your brain and leaves you feeling like shit afterwards.