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.”
“He’s
a level of sympathy that nobody even showed me at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was
voice as broken as I felt inside. Tears that I was trying
you back when he wakes up, okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing
I sucked in
wasn’t real. You 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 to you, you tell that coward to have the
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disconnected without giving her the chance
blurred my vision and I had to put my
with this. Maybe it would hur just this much,
with this now,
when my Grandpa just
when I didn’t have anyone
cried so much in the past week that crying more made
faith
We were real.
We were 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,
to go to the bathroom to freshen up when my eyes fell on the white
earlier.
found my way to it and with trembling hands, I opened it to reveal the
were signed by
papers were
signed the divorce
that 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 signatures from all
tear the contract
the contract didn’t matter
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