“No… no, she still doesn’t know.”
His next sentence shattered something inside me.
“If she’d figured it out earlier, the whole thing would’ve fallen apart.”
My heart raced.
What had he been hiding?
I leaned forward, desperate to hear more.
Then he said the words that sent me stumbling backward toward the front door.
“My plan is about to work.”
His footsteps stopped.
“My plan is about to work.”
I never heard the rest.
I couldn’t.
Panic swallowed every rational thought.
I rushed outside before he could see me.
By the time I reached my car, tears blurred the windshield.
I sat there shaking so violently I couldn’t fit the key into the ignition.
I never heard the rest.
A lifetime.
Our entire relationship.
Every birthday.
Every anniversary.
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Every promise.
What if none of it had been real?
I drove aimlessly for almost an hour before parking beside a quiet lake.
