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

level of sympathy that nobody even showed me at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was for six months. It’s over.

that I was

when he wakes up, okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing that he

believe you.” I sucked in a deep

and him. I’m sorry. I.. You

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

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without giving her

vision and I had to put my hand

hur just this much, but I didn’t have

with this now,

my Grandpa just

didn’t have anyone to turn

past week that crying more made me feel weak, and I was anything

had faith

We were real.

We were real.

real, I reminded myself. Every time he told me I was his wife, every promise he made me to not leave, every time he reassured me about Lily,

bathroom to freshen up when my eyes fell on the

earlier.

my way to it and with trembling hands, I opened it to reveal the divorce

signed by

divorce papers were

signed the divorce

our contract underlined with a dotted line with

he’d tear

didn’t

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