An Easy Way Out

~HADLEY~

I was still in the same clothes I had worn to the park. The same bitter taste of Garrett's mouth on mine. Under all of it sat the heavier thing I had been carrying since Cassidy sent the articles: Beckett, this morning, with Daphne in his arms like last night had been a temporary blackout he could walk away from and forget.

I had spent the entire drive home trying to decide what I would s