Chapter95: Tearing The Family Apart

Chapter 95: Tearing The Family Apart  LUMINA I climbed the stairs to our bedroom with dread pooling in my stomach, each step I took felt like I was walking away from the life I'd built over the past five years.  The familiar creak of the third step, the family photos that were lined on the walls, the scent of the lavender candles I always kept burning, everything felt like it belonged to someone else now. In our bedroom, I went straight to the closet and pushed aside the hanging clothes to reveal a small safe that had been hidden behind my winter coats and wears.  My hands shook as I entered the combination, it was Ollie's birthday, the one date I knew I'd never forget.  Inside were the things I'd been quietly gathering for months, knowing that a day like this might come, especially with the fact that I had been reborn. It was where I had kept my passport, birth certificate, the emergency credit card I'd opened in my maiden name, and the cash I'd been slowly withdrawing from our joint