Love That Wasn't Meant to Last

Chapter 18

"I'll give Selena back to you..." Hearing these words from Zion felt almost laughable.

"Zion, you must be joking," I said, barely able to hide my irritation. "You took Selena away from me. You wanted her-so take responsibility like a man."

I watched as he looked away, clearly wounded, but I felt no sympathy. "And let's be clear-Selena isn't some object you can 'give back' whenever you feel like it. She chose you that was her decision. It has nothing to do with me."

"Can't you see?" Zion finally said, his voice strained. "Deep down, she still loves you."

Something in my words must've triggered him because suddenly, Zion sat down, overwhelmed, and began to tell me the full story.

Selena, she went home in silence. He

days that followed, things started to spiral. Selena constantly compared him to me, always putting him down. He was frustrated but couldn't do anything except try to please her

of me or the years we had shared as husband and wife. She wanted to fight for our marriage, thinking maybe after her infatuation with

desperate and helpless, so he took it upon himself to block any path of her back to me. He intercepted

then, I had already accepted a position at a branch office in a different city. Given the confidentiality requirements, no one could tell her my new location, and with Zion's interference, she couldn't find

contact me or track

to dissuade her. "If he walked away,

he hadn't realized how much those words would break her. "Let him go? How could you say

"Hudson, where are you?"