Winning Back His Ex's Wife's Broken Heart by Hayley

Chapter 51

Sarah's

pov

If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be waking up to a message from her of all people, I'd have laughed in your face.

Susan. Richard's ex-lover. The woman I once called the devil in high heels. The same one who pranced into my life and nearly tore my marriage apart.

And now, out of nowhere, she was texting me? Of course, my first reaction was to laugh. It was either that or scream.

I'd barely had time to make coffee, and there it was, my phone buzzing from the kitchen counter.

When I saw her name flash on the screen, I swear my stomach twisted into knots.

I hadn't heard from Susan since I came to Mexico, leaving me with the broken pieces of my life after Richard chose her over me.

Yeah, Richard didn't love me, but it hurt the same. Now she had the nerve to message me?

The first text was like a punch.

"Hey Sarah. Long time."

I nearly dropped my mug. My heart pounded. Why was she even messaging me?

After all these months, why now? I stared at the screen for a good minute before typing back.

"What do you want, Susan? Thought you'd be too busy wrecking lives in the States."

Yeah, I was mad. I had every right to be. She hadn't just ruined my relationship-she'd strutted into my life, into our home, and practically made herself queen of the place.

able to look at my couch without picturing her sitting there, legs crossed, smirking

realize I was gripping the

name was when she was splashed all over national TV-as Richard's

again, pulling

need to reach out like this, but you need

the hell did she want? My first instinct was to delete it and move on with my day, but

unlocked the phone and read the message again,

possibly have to say to me? Didn't get enough when you stole him

a cheap shot, but it felt good to say it. Susan had already torn my life

buzzed within

came to me. And if you think he's changed, well... I thought you should know the

scoffed, but the words hit somewhere deep. The truth? What the hell was she trying

had history, painful history. He'd divorced me and put a ring

humiliated, reduced to watching their engagement on TV like it was some sort

in the office, while I tried to focus on work, my thoughts kept circling back to her words. Richard had been making efforts, trying to show me he wasn't the same man who left me. But Susan... She

in ways I didn't,

She wanted me to doubt

that evening, I was lying on my couch, half-watching the news, when my phone buzzed

you get played the same way I was. You think Richard's back for good? Think again." I rolled

was different. Susan wasn't just messing with me. She knew how to twist the knife in just the right

even think of a reply, my phone buzzed

go on that business trip last month? The one he didn't tell you about?

Richard had been weirdly vague about. The one where he didn't call or

paranoid. But now, Susan was bringing it

fingers hovered over the screen, trembling

you talking

Her response came quickly.

spent that weekend together. He came down to the USA to see

the screen, my heart pounding.