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.”

It’s the least I could do,” he said

caught up, we walked side by side toward my parents’

was just for appearances,

a bit

was strange. My parents had been gone for years, and I

was a kid, crying into my pillow

the gravestone now

always so dignified and

so long to bring

was gentle, serious as he bowed his head three times, and on the last one, murmured, “I was

rest of

Not that it mattered

he

Chapter 37

didn’t have a

“Mom, Dad…”

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

like I belonged to

left, I never really had a home again. Marrying Bryant, I thought I’d

cleaned my tears, overwhelmed with sadness,

two months now! In a few months, the baby will be here. I

I’m so happy,

but either way, you’ll be