Milos expression inred thunderous.
After Harper dured off, he stepped outside and called his tant, voire sharp as broken glass.
I want everything so Harper’s ex husband. What he did in her, how he treated her I want deads. And get the jet ready. I’m taking her somewhere she can heal-
Standing there, walding the ma she’d loved for years plan another wome recovery. Eliana fell something inste hermally shatter completely
The wait. The mos the stopped topang, stopped pretending, stopped believing that someday he might look at her the way he looked at Harper
He saut incapade of love it want tionally unavailable. He was just all of for someone else |
When she’d been hurt, bed been rewhere. When she been lonely in their marriage, he been thinking of Harper. When she’d needed him mont, he’d been plowing his next triji in sep his ex
The scorecard in her purse suddenly fell ani
Ser dat need those last ten p
points to know this was over
Elana presed her back against the goal walling the ware of devastation threatening crusher, she spent three years mying an place in his heart, ord, in discover that place had been peristently secupied since high schood||
She was due. Done hoping bone waiting, bone bring the placehubder wite what be pined he wenture che ||
Tha marriage had been her delusion from day one, but the nightmate was almost over ¦
She would set Milo free to chase his real love ||
And pointy, fedly she would stop destroying herself for a man who would never chanse her.
Chaos juntiver a mock in the hispital, ent
sally having his mettant
Linking at the jewelry and health product potuig sig in her room. U hana fell absolutely
| Mlodopetliet over the past few day
mming Grace Cathe
watching the tamilse
(in San Temiriten, they it candles
ille. They sloud side by side at dilatier Point in Vosemée, dwarfed by
made wishes before the beautiful stained glam window. ||
After the photos came a kung imessage from Harper,
Tvery place in these photos is somewhere Milo took me shirts we were dating. We made the mest beautiful memujes in these places and prombed each other brever. Tow he mays he’s taking me away to help me heal, but every single stops has been revisiting our old bounts. Durt you think that means he’s hoping to go hack to the way
Ihan read through the messages silently
After her injuries beated, she went home alone, laut at the front door she heard familiar votres–jake
e and Ryan were inde. [
“Badr, you already bankrupted Hisper’s ex, right? The guy’s completely screwed and will never recover, and Harper’s doing better. So why are you getting hammered the second you get back?“||
Though the sightly open door. Thana save empty bottles scattered around Mio.||
lonked wasted, his unally sharp–i
pfeatures Dushed, his eyes glassy and unfocused.||
I just hair myself for being such a coward back then. Why couldn’t I swallow my damn pride? Why didactight for us? Why did I waste five whole years furturing myself while leming Harper get destroyed by some piece of sha
Jake and Ryan exchanged looks rearly fed up
right now?” jake haid, his voire getting hested, “Harper kill you, man. She chose to walk away, chose to marry that inser, chose to cut everyone off when
was bad news. That’s on her, nui you ||
Ryan was in more blunt. “And what about ana? Your actual wife? The woman who’s been nothing but amazing to you for three years while you’ve been obsessing over someone who dumped you?”
Ryan’s right.” Jake continued, clearly phaed off. “Ellen deserves so much better than this. She gave up her entire career for you, takes care of your parents like they re her owns puss up with you bring gone half the time without a single complate. And this is how you repay her? Getting drunk over your ex?]
“She literally almost died last week and you werrat even there! Ryans vele tracked with anger. “We had to hear about it from the hospital because you were too busy playing knight in shining armor Harper. That’s messed up. Ma.
jabe Jrated forward, his tone getting serious. “Look, we’ve been friends stce college, but I’m gonna bereal with you–if you keep treating Eliana like garbage, you’re ponna lose the best thing that ever happened to you. Harper had her chance and she blew it. Eliana’s been here the whole tinie, loving you unconditionally, and you’re throwing it away for what? Nostalgier|
The went dead quet Mils finished his drink and whispered. “She could be perfect, but she’s still not ver.-
Thor words he kn
a physical lilow, shattering what was left of her heart into irreparable pieces|||
Her hands duok sincontesdalily. She pr
nack this he’d said they made are together.
her back against the door, eyes squeezed shut, remembering when Milo bail agreed to marry her
Now he was saying the wash the one
riage as settling.
gfur second bed, then what had her three years of complete devotion been watth
I been a placeholder. A warm body filling space while he paned for someone else. A coolation prize hed accepted out of obligation to her dying father ||
Branding three in the Judhway of what shed thought was the home, batening to the man she loved with everything in her diatas be as fundamentally inadequate
il Ellenia fell something inside her die completely
Not just her hope–her entire capacity to keep pretending the could work }]
She was done. Not just with the mattige, list with the version of herself who beloved she could earn has love through sheer force of wil
It was tire to stop being the wrong woman desperately tryg
tame to permetaliri who dir’d been before she’d best herself trying to be enough for someone who wild ver choor het
