Chapter 128

Lizzy's POV

“Where’s your baby?” my mom asked, her eyes trailing over the living room. There were still a few toys on the ground, and there was a stack of diapers on the floor beside the couch.

“Sleeping.” I stepped slightly closer to Elliot. “I’m not moving back in with you guys. I have a life here, and a family.” I paused for a moment and then swallowed slightly roughly. “And a pack.”

Sorrow filled my mom’s eyes. “I know we messed up, Lizzy. We were confused and hurt. And we just wanted you to have a good life—we were worried you’d be sacrificing everything.”

I had sacrificed everything. But I would do it all again for my baby in a heartbeat.

I couldn’t tell them it was alright. What they’d done hadn’t been alright. They’d stolen the money from the trust fund my grandmother had left me, they’d told me I was a monster, and they’d said they never wanted to see me again. Everything I’d told them had to have been overwhelming for them, but that wasn’t an