Chapter 69

69

Kaia and Beau had been keeping to themselves way more than they had intended, guiding each other in both their professional and personal, so much so that when Kaia finally took Luna to visit Jen and Kim, she had not expected the mess she would find Jen to be. “Jenny, what is going on?” Kaia almost panicked, especially when she did not find Kimmy in the house. What had her friend been up to, what happened to Kim and Jen’s mother who offered to be around as much as she could when Jen decided it was time to move out again.

The house smelled like it had not aired out in a few days and she could smell the strong scent of cigarettes in the room, indicating that Jen had gone back to smoking after such a long battle with nicotine withdrawals. She wished she had not brought Luna and her only option right now was to open the windows to air out the whole place and let some light in. Jen was curled up in a ball on her couch, staring lifelessly at her screen, looking like she was not even seei