ANASTASIA

My chest heaved up and down as I watched Dennis grip his hair, his eyes squeezed shut.

He finally turned to face me. He exhaled loudly. "I am sorry."

He shook his head and repeated, "I am really sorry, babe. I'm sorry for driving off that night."

My heart squeezed in my chest as I saw his eyes water. I could tell that he felt bad; that he didn't do all that he did intentionally. Or simply because he was mad at me or the situation we were in.

I wanted to go to him and wrap my arms around him but I remained seated on the bed and just watched him.

"I'm sorry for not picking up your calls or returning them when I later saw them."

He took a step closer and I didn't stop him like I would have a couple of minutes ago.

He hesitated for a while, seeming to guage my reaction while he said, "There's no excuse for me to be such a jerk to you, especially with everything going on."

He closed the space between us. He lowered himself into a squat and took my hands in his. "I'm sorry, Ana. I swear, I didn't mean to behave the way I did."

I sighed and closed my fingers around his hands.

I noticed the fall of his shoulders as he seemed to to relax. "Thank you so much for not giving up on me," he said but I said nothing in return.

I knew I couldn't leave things just like that.

"I can tell that you're sorry, Dennis but this isn't really you. What is really going on?"

He rubbed his hand over his face.

"I recently met Cole again."

my

friend. You

has Cole got to do with all of

me about an

it sounded very promising. I invested quote a lot in it. Cole did too. We put most of what we had into it for higher returns. I even sold some of my properties." I nodded slowly, recalling the document I saw in his

think I saw a file like

investment fell through, babe," even as he said those words

imagine how devastated he must have been. I didn't even want to hear how much he invested because if he had to sell some of his

blew out his cheeks. "Thank you. It's just... I couldn't think straight. I- I didn't know what to do or how to face

pulled him in for

been telling myself

get

know I'd never, that money back." He threw his head back and blew out his

that money isn't a joke. My team and I worked endlessly for

arms around him and just let him say everything

after he finished talking. "Everything

me tightened for the first time. "Thank you for listening to me. Thank

No matter what, you're still my husband, you're

nothing better than confiding in family because they will

to keep

may seem hard but instead of letting it drift us apart, it

doing and saying all of these. I mean you just gave birth to a whole baby. I should stop being a baby and let you

smile widened as he watched

on, come

over for him and let him

how was the operation?" He asked after we were snuggly

began to narrate

the pain was my end, right to the part where

to the time

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