#Chapter 147: Where’s Your Wife?

Amber’s POV I didn’t sleep the night after Julian left. With him here, I hadn’t realized how safe I felt and had taken that comfort for granted. Now that he was gone, I felt like I couldn’t really relax. I was jumping at shadows, worried that if I needed someone, everyone would be too far away to help me. The depression that seemed to hang over Alice like a stormy raincloud hadn’t helped matters. I’d made her go to the airport to watch Julian’s plane leave, though she didn’t talk to him and mostly just cried. She cried most of yesterday, so much, I didn’t make her go to her tutor’s. I tried to comfort her myself, even heating up her favorite meal. She ate it, but seemed no happy by any of my efforts. Nor by her favorite tv shows, or her favorite toys. When I told her, “Julian will be back soon,” she replied with a quick, “I don’t care if he is.” That was a clear lie, spoken in a shaky voice. “It’s okay to be mad at him for leaving,” I told her. “But it’s also okay to forg