Chapter 490

“Honey, please, can you promise me? Once this mess is over, we’ll move away right away…” Alice Walker sobbed into Elijah Knight’s chest, completely falling apart. It was all her fault. Back then, she’d been so scared—scared of losing Elijah, such a perfect boyfriend—that she did something stupid. She’d drugged him, hoping to make him stay. But then she and Elijah had drunken sex, and she hadn’t dared to come clean. Instead, Emma Lane got blamed for everything, and everything spiraled from there. She knew she messed up. Now that she had a daughter of her own, she finally understood just how deeply wrong she’d been. If someone had done that to her girl, she’d go crazy trying to protect her too. “Then just tell me what’s going on, okay? Why do we have to leave all of a sudden? Is someone coming after us?” Elijah’s scalp tingled just thinking about his old-fashioned mom. He and Alice had a good marriage, but his mom had never liked her job. Now, out of nowhere, Alice wanted to pack up and