Chapter 17

• Chapter Seventeen
• Ellie added the final strokes to the mural in the baby’s room. She had turned one of Dale’s three guestrooms into a nursery. She had him break a hole in the wall between the nursery and the master’s bedroom and put up double doors. She’d baby proofed the entire apartment, having nothing else to do, because Dale had her take a longer maternity leave than she had intended on. She had gotten most of what she wanted during the five months they’d lived together, but this one issue he won.
• She stood in front of the mirror caressing her large belly. It didn’t feel like forever anymore, soon she would be holding her baby in her arms and then maybe, she’d finally lose the urge to torture Dale. She didn’t mean to, everything just seemed to be his fault.