Chapter 19
Wren
I’d told Jenny everything on the ride home and wished I’d done so while at work the week before. She never would have asked her cousin to hook us up with a couple of his escorts and caused one of the most emotional nights of my life.
Well, the beginning of it, anyway.
Jenny had explained what Blake told her and that Jarod had verified his words.
But still.
By that point, I’d been worked up, reminded again of being nothing more than a p********e’s oops, and I had trouble setting aside that I’d felt lied to even if I hadn’t.
When I’d gotten home, Mom had been sleeping, or so Nancy and I thought.
She hadn’t woken in the morning after my restless night lying in bed and staring at my old bedroom’s stained ceiling. When the hospice nurse came at my call, she told me Mom h
