Karoline nodded, obviously satisfied with her answers. “Well…I’m ecstatic that you seem to be on the road to recovery.”

“I am on the road to recovery,” Harper insisted. “It’ll take some time, but…I’ll get there.”

Her sister nudged her. “Axel is pretty freaked out,” she confided with a gleeful chuckle.

Harper couldn’t help being a little pleased. “What’d he say?”

“He asked if I knew who you were seeing. If he was a decent guy. If he’d be good for the girls. But I bet it wasn’t about the girls at all. I bet it’s hard for him to imagine another man taking his place.”

“He didn’t consider that possibility before? Didn’t believe I’d ever move on?”

“You’ve always been so in love with him, I honestly doubt he did. The entire world is falling at his feet right now. How dare you defect?”

“I didn’t defect.” Harper’s mind wandered to the night he’d first said he was unsatisfied in their marriage. She’d never experienced anything quite so painful. After he’d mentioned the word divorce, she could hardly breathe. “He kicked me to the curb.”

“Exactly. As far as I’m concerned, it serves him right that you’re not waiting around, hoping to get him back.”

Harper wasn’t sure she’d go that far. She wasn’t pursuing him, but she did want her family to be whole again, and, to a point, she still loved Axel. She supposed part of her always would. They’d shared ten years of their lives, had two children, belonged to each other’s families. It wasn’t easy to unravel all of that.

But if he didn’t love her in return, and she couldn’t make him happy, she wasn’t going to continue to plead with him. “Who knows how I’ll feel tomorrow.” She shrugged. “I’m just taking it one day at a time.”

“That’s all you can do.” Her sister slipped an arm around her and lowered her voice. “You’re stronger than you know. I’m so proud of you,” she said, giving her a squeeze.

Harper winced. She doubted Karoline would be proud of how she’d come to be where she was at, but she didn’t see how it would help the situation to confess.

She smiled as her sister began to propel her toward Space Mountain so they could wait for their families.

Everly and Piper were just coming out of the ride, both of them laughing, when her phone vibrated with another text.

“I bet this is him,” she told Karoline, but Karoline was no longer listening. She was moving forward, talking to her twins, who were telling her she just had to go back on the ride with them.

Harper pulled out her phone. But the text wasn’t from Axel. It was from Tobias:

How are you?