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

but it wasn’t enough to make up

low. “So, you still don’t want to remain my

at him squarely,

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

a heartbeat. But right then, I couldn’t

say yes.

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he rushed past me to help

Or was it when the slap he gave me as

Our marriage

his grip

filled with bitter irony. “I could even pretend I

photos. Isn’t that

bucket of ice water poured

to toe, freezing my

welled up first, breaking

me? Bryant, is that what you think