When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 37

What was that supposed to mean? He thought I cheated on him before we even split?

He was exactly that type of guy.

I couldn’t be bothered to explain, so I just said indifferently, “Just friends.”

“What friends?”

“Bryant,” I couldn’t help but smile softly, “Dead men don’t pry.”

If he wanted to be a ghost from my past, then he might as well vanish for good.

Bryant almost laughed out of irritation, his tongue clicking against his cheek in scorn, “Fine.”

When we got to the cemetery, I stepped out of the car and started climbing the steps up the hill.

Seeing he wasn’t following. I turned back to wait for him.

As I did, I noticed him carrying some flowers he must have prepared at some point, which caught me off guard.

I bit my lip, then said, “Thank you.”

least I

up, we walked side by side toward

it was just for appearances, at least my parents would be

well-kept, with only a bit of dust on

had been gone for years, and I didn’t think

when I was a kid, crying into my pillow night

gravestone now tears just

so dignified and

it took me so long to bring

head three times, and on the last one, murmured, “I was

couldn’t hear the rest of

Not that it mattered

he

Chapter 37

didn’t have a future together

“Mom, Dad…”

things. I wanted to say were reduced to a simple, “I miss

feeling like I belonged

really had a home again. Marrying Bryant, I thought I’d finally have a family, but it

with sadness, yet

Dad, I’m pregnant, two months now! In a few months, the baby

so happy,

a boy or a girl, but