When Love Breaks by Jack

I couldn’t see through Bryant.

All I could do was instinctively step back. “What do you mean?”

“Can we not get a divorce? Please?” Bryant clutched my wrist, his fingers

tracing my pulse, “From now on, it’s only you that I want. No one else

matters.”

I asked, “Including Teresa and Margaret?”

He said firmly, “Yes.”

“Bryant,” I sneered, full of disbelief. “Can you even convince yourself of that?”

If it was a sudden epiphany, it was far too late. I hadn’t expected him to

enough to make up for the past

“So, you still don’t want

him squarely,

we could go back to before we lost the baby and he made

a heartbeat. But right then, I couldn’t find any reason

say yes.

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it when he rushed past me to

Or was it when the slap he gave me as I

marriage was

silent for a long while, his grip on my hand tightening until,

eyes cleared, filled with bitter irony.

photos. Isn’t that

a bucket of ice water poured over me in the dead

me from head to toe, freezing

first, breaking free

me? Bryant, is that what you