Chapter 0120

ETHAN

Hearing my friend utter words like that stung. Sometimes we take things and people for granted. A few days ago, I was determined to take my friend’s wife, well. Ex wife from him because I felt like he didn’t deserve her, that he didn’t appreciate her enough. All true but, I never stopped to think what he might be feeling.

Nick has always been bossy and acting like he had everything under control. Like life for him is not something that just happens, that he makes things happen and controls the variables. Because of all of that, I forgot that my friend was a person too, that he had feelings and got hurt. I knew Nick’s anger very well and most of the time it was just that.

Unreasonable anger caused by business and nothing more. But I was starting to see a different side to the man. The human side he has been hiding well from all of us. The side that is vulnerable, the one that showed that the man also needed support, love and care. He fucked up big time and that is something he was not used to.

But he acknowledges that and is willing to put in the work to make things right. But how could he when I have been nothing but an obstacle in his way. Starting from the Week Olivia was released from prison and I was called to pick him up at the bar. When he let slip that he wanted her back.

How could he want her back after everything he did to her, everything he put her through? I couldn’t let that happen. I thought she deserved better, that she deserved me, but boy, was I wrong. Marcus came into play and showed us both how it’s done.

like that. First, Olivia didn’t want me, never did. Second, now more than ever I see how much Nick really loved his ex–wife. Now thinking back to when she was in prison.

all the time, day and night. I hardly saw him, never socialized and even lost weight. Now that I think about it, the man was depressed and I as his supposed best friend, missed it. I was busy helping his wife

whole time was busy helping his wife and looking for a chance

of the car and followed him into the house. I found him with a bottle of scotch in hand and drinking from the bottle. I can’t believe how selfish

the scotch. I was feeling like shit for what I had been doing to the man. I even helped sell that the boy was not his. I

said that with the saddest voice I have ever heard. I had to turned to look at him to make sure that it was him who spoke. He glanced at me briefly and that was when I saw how red his eyes were. The man was crying. Tension gathered on my shoulders and my heart ached. “She

else by then and I will never get her back. You can see how

said was true and I didn’t know what to say to make him feel

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Chapter 012C

“I say fuck It! let’s go after Marcus, combine

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