Chapter 62

EVANGELINE

I angrily wiped at the tears that escaped my cheeks, but the more I wiped them away, the harder they fell until my vision had blurred and my throat felt like there was a rock in it.

I’d never cried once over the years when Alex’s mother treated me like shit. I didn’t cry on my wedding day when she told me that I would always be an orphan, and nothing more. I didn’t cry after a year in our marriage when she berated me for not giving her son a child.

Hell, I even stopped crying after a few years of grandma’s torture, but with Nicholas? I couldn’t help the waterworks.

With those people, I knew what to expect, they had always been cruel to me, they had always hurt me, but with Nicholas? There was a time when he was truly a brother to me… a friend. There was a time when I could count on him to have my back, and all of that was gone in only a matter of seconds.

I stumbled over my own feet and with a scream of frustration, I ripped off my heels. They were fucking expensive; it was