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."

arched my brows,

nodded. "Yeah, Cole. He's an old friend. You probably know him but

Cole got

talking again. He told me about an investment and somehow,

research and all and it sounded very promising. I invested quote a lot in it. Cole did too. We put most of what we had

drawled, "I think I saw a file like that in your

he said those words now, I could hear the fear in his voice,

couldn't imagine how devastated he must have been. I didn't even want to hear how

do or how to face anyone. I think it was around when Cole told me about the loss that your call came in. I'm

okay." I pulled him in

been telling myself

get

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

of hardwork that wet into that money isn't a joke. My team and I worked endlessly

and just

his head after he finished talking. "Everything will be fine,

tightened for the first time.

what, you're still my husband, you're

they will always have

sorry I chose to

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 focus

widened as he watched me

come sit

and let him sit

He asked after we were snuggly

narrate to him about

right to the part where everything

the time

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