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.”

I could do,”

side by side toward my parents’

was for the best, I guess. Even if it was just for appearances, at least my parents would be at peace,

well-kept, with only a bit of dust on

been gone for years, and I didn’t think about them

when I was a kid, crying into my pillow night after

gravestone

so dignified and reserved,

so long to bring

head three times, and on the last

couldn’t hear the rest of what he

Not that it mattered

he

Chapter 37

didn’t have a future together

“Mom, Dad…”

touched their photos on the gravestone, my tears flowed even more, and all the things. I wanted to say were reduced to

like I belonged to a

Bryant, I thought I’d finally have a family, but it was just a

tears, overwhelmed with

months now! In a few

I’m so

girl, but either way, you’ll be thrilled, won’t