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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