He had no answer for that.
Then he looked at me. “I never lied about loving you.”
And the hardest part was—I believed him.
But love built on deception is still deception.
“You didn’t just lie,” I said. “You replaced someone. And then you asked me to build a life on that lie.”
I took off my ring and placed it in his hand.
“I can’t do that.”
No one moved.
I turned to Linda. She was crying, but she nodded.
