Chapter 0144
There’s a long, heavy silence. After what feels like an eternity, Karl finally meets my eyes, and there’s a

raw, aching vulnerability there that makes my heart drop into my stomach. “You’re right,” he says

quietly, his voice filled with regret. “I didn’t know at first. I just knew that he wasn’t that invested in you,

and figured that he’d take the bait.”

My heart shatters. All at once, I want to scream, cry, and pass out. I can’t decide which; maybe all

three. “I can’t believe this, Karl. How could you do something like that? Something so… c unning?”

He looks as if he wants to say something, to justify himself, but he doesn’t. Instead, he stands there,

staring at me with a sort of defeated look in his eyes, as if realizing that there are some things that even

words can’t fix.

“Abby, I—”

“Don’t,” I cut him off, my voice breaking. “Just don’t even bother, Karl. I’ve heard enough. And to think

that all this time, I really thought you were changing, becoming a better man like you said you would.”

trying to take a step toward me. “Trust

for you. To be

but let out a wry chuckle. “Bu llsh it,”

between us as

here, and you don’t have to worry about

me.

crumples, but he doesn’t argue. He knows he’s lost

a moment, we lock eyes, and I see a flicker of hope in

bring myself to look at him for any longer. Just looking at him makes

to

and speaks without looking over his shoulder. “I’m so sorry, Abby,” he

with emotion. “I

that, Karl.

over my laptop

home.

ga y; I can accept that. What I can’t reconcile with is the gnawing question that keeps

taken Karl’s

expedite the inevitable? Or did they manipulate the course of my

my emotions and a

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