It pained her to admit this, but she was grateful that Thelma kept Porter from reaching her.
Because she didn’t think she could take it if he had touched her.
Not when he smelled like her twin, while her twin smelled like Kendra.
Don’t think.
Just don’t think at all.
Just don’t.
Kendra really thought she could make it.
But as soon as she was out of their front door—
No no no no no no no no
Her stomach turned, and Kendra crashed to her knees as she threw up on the sidewalk.
Chapter Two
KENDRA STILL WASN’Tthe prayerful sort, mostly because she was afraid of putting her faith in God. Everyone around her had already broken her trust. She didn’t think she could bear it if God turned out to be just like all the others.
But despite that...
She couldn’t help but think it was God behind her mother’s surprising decision to bequeath her home to Kendra instead of Thelma. After all, Kendra wasn’t her favorite daughter. And yet she was the one who ended up with the house while Thelma had all the cash. Honestly, Kendra had thought Thelma would get everything, and she would have been fine with that.
But thankfully, that wasn’t the case, and it was why Kendra had somewhere to go even when she was broke.
The first three months after walking out of her home, she had simply kept herself busy. Anything and everything was fine. All she cared about wasnothaving to think of Porter and Thelma.
On the fourth month, the divorce papers arrived. Even now, it shamed Kendra a little, how those papers had made her curl up in a ball on the floor and just...cry.
It made her feel dumb, crying for people who clearly didn’t care about hurting her.
But in the end, that was exactly what she did.
She cried and cried and cried.
And then she had prayed.
Please, God.
Please.
I just don’t know what to do now.
It was only the second time in Kendra’s life that she had prayed, and that...that shamed her a little, too. She still wasn’t convinced if God was real, but if He was, would it matter to Him that she only remembered to pray when she was desperate and hopeless?
Even now, she wasn’t sure of the answer to that. But what she did know was that when she woke up the day after, her heart wasn’t as heavy, and she had somehow found the strength to pick up a pen and start signing.
Kendra Selleck.
She actually had to ask ChatGPT about that.Do I sign my divorce papers under my married name or not?And unfortunately, the answer was yes in her case, since her married name was her legal name.
Kendra Selleck.
She felt like crying when she was all done because she knew this was the end. This was the last time she would sign anything with that name. Once these papers were filed, she would be back to the name she was born with—
