Aiden.
The clock strikes 7 o’clock as I arrive home, and the stillness of the house greets me. Entering the living room, I find Emily and Jane seated at the dining table.
“Hi princess,” I say to Jane, expecting a reply, but she simply gets off her chair and clasps her sister’s hand in hers.
“Bed mommy,” she tells Emily.
I wondered what I had done to deserve such treatment. She had never ignored me like that before, even when she was tired.
As I walked towards her, I scooped her up, but she immediately squirmed in my arms.
I felt a heavy sadness weighing on me, wondering what could have made her act this way. “Princess, what happened?”
“Your Mommy hurt my mommy,” she says, her voice trembling as she pushes my shoulders, trying to break free. I release her and turn to Emily.
“Come on
