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 with
at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was for six months. It’s
I felt inside. Tears that I was trying hard to contain
up, okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing that he would send the divorce papers to you
you.” I sucked in a deep
wasn’t real. You and him. I’m sorry. I..
himself.” I was aware of how pathetically clingy this would sound if she was telling the truth, if he had really 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, you tell that coward to have the decency to at least tell
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giving her the chance
vision and I had to put my hand on my
have dealt with this. Maybe it would hur just this
with this now,
my Grandpa
have anyone to turn
had cried so much in the past week that crying more
had faith
We were real.
We were real.
his wife, every promise he made me to not leave, every time he reassured me about Lily, it was all
to go to the bathroom to
earlier.
it and with trembling hands, I opened it to reveal the
were signed by
papers were signed
signed the divorce
that? The alimony amount written in bold letters, the terms of our contract underlined with a dotted
he’d tear the
contract didn’t
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