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ALEXANDER. The next day, I was not sure Lena would be happy to see me. She looked so peaceful sleeping. I watched her snore gently, looking like the goddess she was. We had sex last night, the best sex that felt like home. She was my home.However, I could not help but think she would hate me when she wakes up. Last night she was drunk, and every word she said supported my drunkenness. She may wake up and curse me out. Hence, I slipped out of her bed. I had barely walked three steps down the hallway when I saw Annalise. She paused when she laid eyes on me and looked back at Lena's room. "I just wanna see the kids,” I whispered. “Lena’s room is soundproofed, you don't have to whisper.” She uttered and I nodded. It must be weird for her to see me tiptoe out of her sister’s room when I used to be her mother’s husband. I killed her mom, the reality of that dropped on me like wildfire. Was she aware?Now I see why Lena wouldn’t accept me easily. Our story was too damn painful. Althoug

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LENA. Four weeks since he left my room after claiming my body. I had received no calls or even a text from him hence I busied myself with work, burying my feelings over piles of documents. I refused to feel dejected by a man who once showed me that I meant nothing to him.Mother was right when she said I should let him prove himself before allowing him into my life. I couldn’t even tell her I had let him into my bed shamelessly that night. The four weeks she gave him were over and she had begun to prepare the kids for travel. She wanted us to leave this place since it reminded me of him so much. She wanted me to find someone else and get married. Ken has been coming around, trying to get my forgiveness, and even promised to let me make the decisions now. I had also seen him with the kids several times, he was trying to make them love him. Yet, I did not see myself getting married again.Just then the door burst open and Ken stepped in. He had an envelope with him.“Have you seen t

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ALEXANDER. Vivian committed suicide. She wrote a letter that broke everyone around her and me the most. I had never thought that I could feel so much sadness toward a person until I read the content of the letter. It was heart-wrenching. It consumed me entirely and even ate at my soul. "Her last wish is to have a wedding invitation printed and for her death not to be announced for three months at least. And even when we do, she still wants to be seen as a married woman." Her mother uttered, staring at me with a gaze filled with tears. “I am such a bad mother. How come I didn’t know how sad she was all these years? She got cancer at 17. She smiled through the entire thing and I thought that she was just a strong kid not realising she was in pain. She was bullied in school yet she smiled when she returned home.” The tears she was fighting so hard to hide slipped down her cheeks. I forced myself to stay still. Vivian and I worked together for weeks and she was a lovely soul. She smi

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