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Never Returning Home

Short Story · Romance
By:  Darkness AwareCompleted
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Tragic Love

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Melodramatic

Bias

Mistress

Male POV

Cheating

Winning Back the Husband

Face Slapping

My girlfriend was always extremely possessive of me. Throughout our seven-year relationship, Hannah Levin kept on repeating the same thing, “Do you have any idea how handsome you are, honey? I just want to hide you away from the world. You’re so gorgeous that anyone could easily fall for you. I get jealous whenever someone looks at you twice.” That was why she never let me anywhere near her social circle. Until one day, I stumbled across her private social media account using an anonymous profile. Three years. More than six hundred posts. Every single one of them documented her life with another man. They wandered through Skyreach Citadel, made wishes atop snow-covered mountains, and kissed openly on the streets of Silverhaven. Her latest post showed them at the beach. Surrounded by cheering and screaming friends, she kissed him for everyone to see. The caption was: When you love someone, you can’t help showing him off to the whole world. My fingers trembled as I quietly closed the page and booked a flight to Ravenport. It turned out that letting go of a seven-year relationship could only take a heartbeat.

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Chapter 1
Just as my flight confirmation came through, Hannah Levin reached out to me via video call.On the screen, she was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in her hotel room.She smiled at me. “Honey, why are you still up?”Had I not seen those six hundred posts, the sound of her voice would have probably softened me as it always did.I did not answer right away.Hannah spoke in the same affectionate tone she always used. “Do you miss me? Work’s almost done here. I’ll be home in three days at most, and I’ll bring you a present.”“Are you alone in the hotel room?” I asked.Her expression did not change in the slightest. If anything, her smile became even more convincing. “Of course I am. Didn’t I promise I’d come straight back to the hotel after work and not go anywhere else?”The moment she finished speaking, a man’s laughter came from somewhere behind her.Hannah’s smile froze for a split second.Then she quickly angled the camera away and said with feigned annoyance
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Chapter 2
Using the location tagged in her post, I took a cab to the beachfront hotel.After I got into the car, I received a transaction alert from our joint account.Hannah had just spent a six-figure sum.The charge was from a jewelry store.At the same time, she uploaded another post.The photograph showed the man holding out his wrist, which was adorned with a diamond watch.The caption said: Men deserve to be spoiled like princes too.I looked down at my own wrist.A faint scar ran across it.The previous winter, Hannah had woken with a stomach ache, so I got up in the middle of the night to make her some soup. I accidentally touched the edge of the pot and burned myself.She had been so distressed at the time. She held my hand and blew on it for a long while.“Honey, let me take care of things like this from now on,” she said.Eventually, she did learn how to make soup.Just not for me.In one of her posts, when that man fell ill, she sat by his bedside and fed him soup.Th
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Chapter 3
Hannah’s friends took turns blaming me while she quietly comforted Josh as he cried.A chill spread through my entire body. The crushing humiliation nearly overwhelmed me.Just as I felt I could no longer stand there, Hannah finally let go of him and walked toward me.She lowered her voice. “Honey, how did you find this place?”I looked at her and sneered.“So instead of asking why I came, you only want to know how I found you?”A flicker of unease crossed her face as she reached for my arm.“Let’s not make a scene here. We’ll talk outside.”I pulled away from her.“How am I making a scene? Hannah, you kept me a secret for seven years, and you hid him from me for three. Right now, I only want you to say one thing in front of everyone. Who am I to you?”The warmth gradually disappeared from Hannah’s expression.She used to hate seeing me cry.Whenever my stomach hurt, she would drive across town in the middle of the night to buy me medicine. When I had cramps, she would gent
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Chapter 4
I was standing on the sidewalk when my phone buzzed.It was a message from my father.[Eric, are you and Hannah going to visit anytime soon? Your mom was asking about the wedding again today.]I stared at the words until my eyes finally began to sting. I had lied to my family for far too long because of Hannah.I told them she was busy. I told them that she did love me, but she preferred to keep her private life private. By the end, I had repeated those lies so often that I had almost started believing them myself.I called my mother.Her gentle voice came through the phone. “How did it go? Have you and Hannah set a wedding date yet? Are you visiting us anytime soon?”“Mom, we broke up.”There was a long silence on the other end.Long enough for me to think she would accuse me of acting too hastily or tell me to give Hannah another chance.Instead, she only sighed.“Did she hurt you?”Her question nearly shattered the composure I had fought so hard to maintain.“Yes.”My
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Chapter 5
It was drizzling outside when the plane landed.I turned on my phone and found it flooded with notifications.Hannah had called more than thirty times. Her messages gradually shifted from affectionate concern to impatient questioning.[Honey, where are you?][Stop this. I told you I’d marry you.][Why did you delete all your posts?]The last message had been sent at 4 a.m..[Honey, I'm sorry. Please answer the phone.]I stared at the words “I'm sorry” and found them bitterly ironic.She didn't apologize to me when her friends humiliated me.She didn't apologize to me when she said she would marry me while promising Josh a wedding.She didn't apologize to me when I discovered that she had lied to me for three years.She apologized when I had really left.That was why she was panicking.My parents were waiting for me at the arrivals gate. The moment Mom saw me, her eyes turned moist with tears. She simply pulled me into her arms without asking any questions.The familiar s
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Chapter 6
The next morning, I was awakened by raised voices at the front door.I heard Mom speaking in a low voice. Her tone was unusually cold and firm. “He doesn’t want to see you. Please leave.”A dull ache spread through me. I threw on a jacket and walked over to the window.Hannah was standing outside. She was still wearing the same dress from the day before, but it was badly wrinkled now. When she saw me standing by the window, her eyes lit with desperate hope.“Honey, please come out and talk to me.”I did not move.She kept her face turned toward the window. Her voice was painfully hoarse. “I took the earliest flight here. I didn’t pack anything. Eric, I’ve learned my lesson now. Please don’t leave me.”In the past, I could never bear to see her like this.Whenever she called me “honey” with tears in her eyes, I would always give in to her. I would remember how much those seven years meant and forget how she had hurt me, though looking at her at the moment, she felt like a strang
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Chapter 7
Hannah did not leave immediately.She remained outside until noon, then sent message after message from my front door.She claimed that she had deleted every way of contacting Josh.She promised that she would make up for all the years she had kept me hidden.She said she would beg every one of my friends and relatives for forgiveness if that was what it took to earn mine.I did not reply to a single message.That afternoon, Dirk called me again.This time, he no longer sounded as self-righteous as he had the day before. Instead, there was a weary note in his voice.“Eric, do you really have to take this so far?”I sat by the window, holding the mug of tea Mom had brought me. “What have I done?”“Hannah flew back overnight because of you, and Josh is falling apart. He had no idea you and Hannah were still together. He’s a victim too.”“So?”There was a brief silence on the other end.I continued, “Am I supposed to comfort him, give them my blessing, and tell him Hannah is
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Chapter 8
The next morning, I made a public post on social media.For the first time in seven years, I wrote out Hannah Levin’s full name.I did not plead for sympathy or insult her. I simply laid out the timeline of everything.Her confession in college. Our seven-year relationship. Moving in together. Our joint account. Meeting my parents. Her promises that we would marry.Then, three years earlier, she had begun dating Josh. She publicly acknowledged him, introduced him to her friends and mother, and all the while told me she was traveling for work, that she was busy, and that she was waiting for the right time.At the end of the post, I included the video I had taken at the hotel that night.In it, Hannah said, “I’ll marry you, but I’m going to give him a wedding.”After publishing the post, I turned off my phone and went with my mother to the farmers’ market.She held my hand the entire way, just as she had when I was little, and she was afraid I might get lost.She did not ask me
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Chapter 9
A month later, everything in our joint account had been settled.Hannah transferred my half back to me, along with an additional amount she called compensation.I sent the extra money back.I did not need her compensation.Compensation suggested that what she owed me could be measured, but the seven years I had lost could not be repaid by any sum.Dirk visited me one day.He stood outside my house with a box of cake from my favorite bakery. His eyes were red and swollen.“Eric, I’m sorry.”The wind was strong that day. As I looked at him, I suddenly remembered a summer back in high school.We had stood outside the corner store, sharing a popsicle and laughing as we promised that whenever one of us got married, the other would be his best man.The friendship we had shared was real.So was his betrayal.I did not take the cake.“Dirk, I don’t hate you anymore.”A glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes, but then I continued, “But that doesn’t mean I forgive you.”His tears be
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