153- I PROMISE

“I-I wanted you to be there with me and the reality that you had left, it shook me to the core, Amber.” Moore’s bottom lip quivered and his voice shook.

“But gradually, I accepted it and I filled the emptiness you left in my heart with hatred for you; I hated you and I hated myself a lot more!” He almost sobbed and tears leaked from his baby blue eyes.

“I wanted to find you,” Moore stumbled toward me, and I took a step back. My bottom lip trembled and my hands shook, my legs could barely keep me upright and deep down, it felt like my heart could explode at any moment.

“To ask you why,” Moore’s eyes ran over my skin and I shut my eyes. A feeling I could not recognize bubbled in my stomach. I winced.

“But then you showed up, you told me I had a daughter and —”

“You married Belene, do not leave that detail out because you married her.” I dead panned and words struck my heart.

Moore nodded. “Yes, I married Belene, but only because she was stranded and pregnant, she was all alone and s