Chapter 65

I didn’t think the call would be picked up. A part of me didn’t want it to be, because what if the reality was worse than my overthinking?

When the phone stopped ringing, there was silence on the other end. I had to check to confirm that the call had been picked up before pressing it back to my ear real quick. “Hello? Gabriel?”

Silence again.

My heart was beating so loudly, I felt it would make its way out of my body any moment. “Hello?”

Silence again.

“Mhm.” A sleepy groggy voice answered, “Who’s speaking?”

My heart sank so quick in my chest, I didn’t have the time to process it. It wasn’t Gabriel speaking. The voice was very feminine. Very familiar. Very dreaded.

I couldn’t speak back. I sat numb.

“Hello?” The soft voice belonging unmistakably to my husband’s ex asked again.

“Lily” greeted, my voice sounding so unfamiliar and foreign. “Where’s my husband?”

“Shit Shit. Sophia. Shit. I didn’t check the caller ID before picking up. I thought it was my phone, Shit. Her self r ended with a small, “Shit. I’m so sorry.”

Tears were stinging my eyes. “Where’s my husband?

One blink and they would fall. One blink and they would fall. I kept focusing on the wall. This wasn’t happening. This isn’t happening. This is not real.

“Sophia, you shouldn’t hear it from me… Her voice trailed. “Listen, he’ll call you back, okay?”

“Give him the phone, Lily. Right now.”

“Sophia… he’s he’s asleep.”

gulped. “He’s asleep

me at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was for six months. It’s over. He’s not your husband

as broken as I felt inside. Tears that I was trying hard to contain streamed

okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing that he would send the divorce papers

don’t believe you.” I sucked

real. You and him. I’m sorry. I.. You shouldn’t even be hearing

sent me divorce papers, if it really was over. How naive and desperate I sounded, I was aware. But I didn’t care. “If he really is sleeping next to you,

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without giving her

as the call was over, I sobbed. Uncontrollable tears blurred my vision and I had to put my hand on my mouth to muttle

with this. Maybe it would hur just this much, but I didn’t have the mental capacity

with this now,

when my

didn’t have anyone

cried so much in the past week that crying more made

had faith in

We were real.

We were real.

I was his wife, every promise he made me to not

go to the bathroom to freshen up when my eyes fell on the white folder I had

earlier.

my way to it and with trembling hands, I opened

signed by

were

signed the

the terms of our contract underlined with a

said he’d tear

contract didn’t matter to him

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