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

didn't even realize I was gripping the

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

pulling me from the

this, but you need to know something about

did she want? My first instinct was to delete it and

and read the message again,

me? Didn't get

Susan had already torn my life apart once. No way

buzzed within

think he's changed, well... I thought you

The truth? What the

painful history. He'd divorced me and put a ring on her finger before the ink on

reduced to watching their engagement on TV like it was some sort of victory lap. But Richard had

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.

in ways I didn't, or maybe

me to doubt him.

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

don't want to see you get played the same way I was. You think Richard's back for good? Think again." I rolled my eyes but couldn't stop the unease from settling in. I wasn't some naïve fool-of course, I knew Richard

me. She knew how

a reply, my phone

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

trip. The same one Richard had been weirdly vague about. The one where he

back then, convinced myself I was being paranoid. But now, Susan was bringing it up like it

fingers hovered over the screen, trembling

you

Her response came quickly.

together. He came down to the USA to see

heart pounding. That