“Lois, I…”
Nathan’s eyes darkened, a bitter smile on his lips.
“I’ve already had my assistant handle things with the platform. I’m sorry for the trouble you’ve been through. I didn’t realize how much you’ve been dealing with. I didn’t know-”
“You knew,” I interrupted softly, looking at him. My tone was indifferent.
If he hadn’t known how painful and suffocating public opinion could be, he wouldn’t have chosen to divorce me just to help Jenny.
In my previous life, I was framed for cheating with multiple male escorts. After the divorce, my reputation was destroyed, my career plummeted, and everyone laughed at me. They even approached me and asked, “Lois, after your ex–husband did this to you, how do you still have the face to live on?”
“If it were me, I’d jump from the 18th floor.”
“Being Mrs. Baldwin–Nathan never really cared about her. If he did, he wouldn’t have done this to her.”
I spent sleepless nights sitting by the floor–to–ceiling window, staring at the lights in the distance. I burned my
studio down.
I burned everything Nathan had ever given me as if that would help erase him from my heart.
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I needed to vent all the injustice I felt.
Thated that the man who had once been my everything had pushed me to the edge.
In the end, I slit my wrists.
I still remember the feeling of the blood slowly draining from my body.
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Nathan opened his mouth as if to explain, but the words stuck in his throat. In the end, he just lowered his head helplessly.
“Lois, I’ll make it up to you,” he said.
I couldn’t help but laugh. I’d heard that line too many times
The night Donald passed away, Nathan left the engagement party for Jenny. “Lois, Jenny’s having some issues. I need to go see her.”
On our wedding day, when Jenny tried to commit suicide again, Nathan sent me back to our room and then didn’t come home that night.
There were moments I wavered, wondering if I should continue with this relationship.
But when I saw Nathan’s exhausted face, I endured. I loved Nathan, so I was willing to go through all the hardships with him.
Whenever he let me down, he would say, “Lois, I’ll make it up to you.”
Nathan always assumed we had forever, but he forgot that love wasn’t infinite; it could fade away.
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