Chapter 17 Shadow’s pov I got home from work and started to cook super for the kids. The babysitter left so I popped in a movie. Hopefully that would keep them busy until I was done cooking. All I really wanted to do was go to bed. I was so exhausted. Sometimes being a single mother was just plain hard. I hurried to make them food so we could try to have an early night. I really didn’t like this new babysitter. She gave the kids long naps during the day making it, so I had a hard time to get them to bed at night. At a year old and three years old they were a handful. It made me angry that my ex did nothing for them. He’s off with his mistress starting a new family. I guess she’s everything I’m not. I looked down at my frumpy clothes. I dressed like a very old woman. I still hadn’t lo