Summary

Lily is nervous. Her once carefully planned out life has begun to take on involuntary shifts. She has invited a near-stranger into her private life and exposed secrets to him that she has kept to herself for years. While she isn’t entirely sure how she feels about Clayton’s involvement in her life, she isn’t completely dismissing it. Her parents approve of the match and it is rare for a man to want to court an unwed mother during this era. They get along well, but her first priority is her son, which is why the thought of leaving him for the first Saturday ever is bringing her so much distress. Her anxious and clouded mind is mirrored in the dark and o The morning following his argument with his father, and his subsequent argument with Lilly, Ellis awakens feeling ashamed...