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
Grandpa’s funeral. I…
believe you,” I told her, my voice as broken as I felt inside. Tears that I was trying hard to contain streamed down my face. “I don’t believe you. Put Gabriel
I’m not really sure, but he had
I sucked
him. I’m sorry. I.. You
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
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disconnected without giving her the chance to
blurred my vision and I had to
hur just this much, but I didn’t have the mental capacity
with this now,
my
didn’t have anyone
that crying more made me feel weak,
faith
We were real.
We were real.
Every time he told me I was his wife, every promise he made me to not leave, every time he
the bathroom to freshen up when my eyes fell on
earlier.
it and with trembling hands, I opened it to reveal
were signed by
were
the divorce
was supposed to be that? The alimony amount written in bold letters, the terms of our contract underlined with a dotted line with both our
said he’d tear the contract
didn’t matter to him
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