One More Chance by Jaycelle Rodriguez

Chapter 178: The Revelation

"So what do you want to tell me?" I asked her the moment I sat down across her seat inside the coffee shop. I've already ordered some drinks and pastries before walking to her chosen table.

She lowered her gaze and I frowned when she sighed.

"Sam..." Fidgeting her fingers, she then started opening her mouth but then stopped and sighed again.

"I won't eat you, I'm not a monster, Lucy," I tried to throw a joke to lighten her mood because I noticed how tense she was in her seat.

"I'm sorry for all the things I've done to you..."

I took a deep breath. I didn't expect to hear those words from her.

"If you're only here to apologize, then I forgive you. The damage has been done and there is nothing I can do about it anymore."

"No! You should fix your relationship!"

I blinked in a slight shock when her voice came a little bit louder. She even straightened her body as she looked at me with those big round eyes.

"What are you talking about?" I asked her, wry smile immediately slipped from my lips. "How am I supposed to be able to fix it when it's already been broken --- when you've already broken it?" Even though it sounded like a joke, the sarcasm can still be heard from it. "I'm sorry," She apologized again, looking down at her fingers... again.

"Why don't you just tell me what you want or what you wanted to say so we can already talk it out? Oh, wait--- what do you have this time? Don't tell me you now have a video?"

"No, Sam, actually, I'm here to apologize," I raised an eyebrow. "Sam, it's all my fault," she stated making me stare at her with a deep frown. "Those pictures and all the things I said at the café were all lies."

My mouth dropped in mid-air as I tried to take a deep breath. My mind was still processing what she had said when she added the following lines.

cheat on you... Luke didn't really cheat on you, Sam. They were all lies. I just

honestly I couldn't form a word inside my head. To say the shock I felt was an understatement it left me speechless for a moment and I no

you gone insane?" The first question I blurted out after a few seconds

jealous of you and your relationship, and that's what

God!" I gulped and then covered my mouth with my hand as my lips began to quiver. Tears formed around my eyes as I remembered how Luke tried to explain himself to me these past few days but I didn't give him the chance to do so. "Those photos... I had a friend who worked

was so hard when my heart was screaming Luke's name. "How dare you? How could you do this to us?" "I'm sorry, Sam, I

yourself, right

for I don't know how many times since earlier... I have already lost

ask you to come here and talk to

"I came here of my own will and he didn't talk to me." she bit her lower lip as she now began to shed tears. "He didn't know I was here and he didn't know that I was going to talk to you." "Then what made you decide to talk to me now? Do you have another plan or a bigger

"No, Sam---"

did your conscience start eating

took a deep breath. "I owe my father's life to your boyfriend," "What do you mean?" I furrowed my eyebrows as

embezzling a lot of

he found out and his anger worsened when he also found out about the things I've done and the lies I've told you. And in payment for everything dad owed him, Luke took dad's shares and because he was addicted to gambling, all he was left with was some money in the bank and the house my mom

he got into an accident the same day. His car collided with a ten-wheeler truck." "Oh, my!" I gasped, my mouth hanging in mid-air in shock. Even though I know what they had done was something we couldn't let go of, somehow I felt pity for her and

still in a coma and

what does Luke have to do with it, how and why did you say you owe

he paid and is still paying for

suddenly at a loss for

on the table tried to take it back but I was stopped by her next words. "Luke loves you more than anything in this world. I know it. He didn't do anything to hurt you and he didn't cheat on you... he never did when he was away. It's all my fault, Sam,

to blame for what happened to our relationship," I

him, I mean, about what happened to him when he was in the Middle

into an accident when he was

I straightened my seat. "What do you mean he had