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
level of sympathy that nobody even showed me at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was for six months.
inside. Tears that I was trying
when he wakes up, okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing that he would send the
believe you.” I sucked in a deep
You and him. I’m sorry. I.. You shouldn’t even be hearing
until he tells me this 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 me
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disconnected without giving her the chance to
soon as the call was over, I sobbed. Uncontrollable tears blurred my vision and I
it would hur just this much,
with this now,
my
I didn’t have
cried so much in the past week that crying more made
had faith
We were real.
We were real.
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
to the bathroom to freshen up when my eyes
earlier.
steps found my way to it and with trembling hands, I opened it to
were signed by
divorce papers were
the divorce
underlined with a dotted
said he’d tear
said the contract didn’t
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