#CHAPTER 151: One Afternoon

Zane POV I could feel Sarah backing away from me. It wasn’t complicated. She was pushing Melissa at me and pulling away. All I needed to figure out was why. I knew it was a little desperate, but I arranged for us to take another picnic at the park. It was a little chilly, but the sun was bright and the sky a lovely blue as Sarah and I spread the blanket on the ground around where we had been before, a shady spot near the lake and not far from the playground with its climbing wall and see-saws. To my relief, the park was evidently now one of the “stay cool” places to see me and my family, so while there were doubtlessly dozens of photos of us taken on phones, no one asked for a selfie or otherwise got obnoxious. Even the attention I had received in public back when I was a widower with a child had gone away. People seemed to respect the idea of a “family” more, even if it included a human goddess-mother, than they had a man and his child. I had no idea why that was true eit