CHAPTER THIRTY

With silent music and words not said, Carter sat on the balcony with a bottle of whiskey, on the floor were empty bottles he had consumed through the night.

His eyes were red from tears that wouldn't flow, his heart choking with pain, for him, this felt more painful than when she left.

When she left him years ago, somehow, he just knew that she would come back but this time she was pregnant with another man and was getting married to him, there was no way she was ever going to be his again.

As he drank constantly hoping that it Would fill the empty nest he felt, nothing reversed, he felt so miserable that it made him drink more.

He was in pain, so much pain that he couldn't let out, but he knew that someone had to pay for the pain he felt.

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Audrey held onto her blanket after throwing up consistently, she was alone and sad under the cold night, she could recall vividly when she was in her first trimester with Mona,

Carter made sure she was comfortable in the discomfort of th