Chapter 2 #2
Laughing sarcastically, I threw the covers from my body and got out of the bed. This was the shit I wasn’t in the mood for, which was why I was hoping he’d be working all night.
“Excuse the hell out of me for not forgiving you overnight.”
“It’s been damn near a year! What do you mean overnight?”
“Until you’ve been betrayed by a person you’re deeply in love with and humiliated in front of millions of people, you’ll never understand how I feel,” I countered.
After taking my phone off the charger, I grabbed my favorite pillow and left for the guest room.
This room had been my saving grace one too many times.
It was once the room I’d claimed as my own before I went back to the master bedroom.
Two years into our relationship, Allen and I went on a vacation with a group of his friends.
One of those people happened to include an up-and-coming R so of course I’d want that back.
However, the betrayal and embarrassment were things I couldn’t bring myself to forgive.
I wholeheartedly believed Allen loved me.
But it was the way he looked at Serenity in that picture that told me the truth.
If it wasn’t for me being in the picture, he wouldn’t have hesitated to give her a chance.
I had nothing when Allen met me and Serenity came into his life with a promising career.
Although I was no longer in that place, it didn’t lessen the blow.
Serenity didn’t need him, and in a sense, I did.
More heavy thoughts circled in my head before I was so exhausted I had no choice but to close my eyes. Tears fell from my lids and all I could do was send up a prayer. I was tired in every sense of the word and couldn’t carry on like this.
“I love you, baby,” were the last words I heard from Allen before I finally went to sleep.