Chapter 4

When Mandy passed away, Ethan was still overseas.

So he didn't really know what was going on back home.

I had no idea how to tell him that I couldn't even pinpoint when my happiness began to fall apart.

Was it when I realized Henry and Mandy were once a couple?

Or was it when Henry and I brought William into our family?

Maybe it wasn't either.

No matter how much I gave, how hard I tried, I could never compete with the shadow of Mandy in their hearts.

How could the living ever compete with the dead?

I remembered…