Jake loved the water. And he loved Michelle. That her mother insisted on going everywhere with them irked him.

That Michelle's mother was planning on rocking the boat and dumping Jake into the water hadn't occurred to him.

Things would never be the same after that. He was humiliated. He'd become a wanderer. A drunk and one day he arrived on Michelle's door. She pretended not to recognize him, for the children, but her heart ached because she knew the truth. She realized what her mother had done.

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