He could actually write something like that.

His lips twitched awkwardly, feeling almost too embarrassed to hit send.

But finally, with a reckless determination, he pressed the button.

Jessica's phone chimed several times in a row-messages from Timothy.

She glanced at the pictures and read through the three texts.

A wry smile tugged at Jessica's lips-equal parts amused and defeated.

If he'd said things like this even a few times in the past seven years, maybe she wouldn't have ended up so heartbroken and numb.

Now, the affection she once longed for from him was no longer something she needed.

The vine of love that had once grown in her heart had long since withered and died; no matter how much water he poured on it now, it would never come back to life.

She shut off her phone and went to bed.

Timothy sat there gripping his phone, waiting for her reply.

He waited half an hour.

An hour.

Nothing.

knocked on his door. "Sir, lunch

phone-noon. It must be past midnight

to be asleep,

to be

and saw the flood

pulled off

the credit, he'd managed to gild his own

hand it

business instincts were razor-sharp-even the divorce had

last drop of value from the

operator-Vince shuddered to think what kind of mess he'd

taken Timothy's

Vince kept doom-scrolling through Twitter, only to realize Timothy's review post had

new trending topic popped

Without

for managing publicity. By now, the comments

were singing

even asked if Timothy had kept his marriage secret because his

he was afraid to

took a screenshot of the comment

to clear this

was in the middle of lunch when his phone buzzed. He set down his

his messages-Vince

expect me

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