The Hundred-Day Rain

Summary

When Ruby saw the weather forecast warning of a massive storm tomorrow, she suddenly burst into tears, begging me not to make her go to preschool.

I was just about to comfort her when Marcus rose from the sofa, looking down at us with a cold, critical gaze.

"Gwen, is this how you raise our daughter? Flinching at a little rain? How is she ever going to handle real life if she is this soft?"

The bitterness in my chest flared. "Then why don't you drive her tomorrow?"

Ever since his first love, Brooke, returned with her child a year ago, Cascadia had been drowned in a relentless, hundred-day…