All Chapters of My Cheating Mate: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

"That wasn't love," Jeremy said, and something in his voice made the entire room fall silent. "Love doesn't hire assassins. Love doesn't attack innocent people. Love doesn't—" He stopped mid-sentence, his eyes going unfocused. His hand slipped from the edge of the witness stand. "Jeremy?" Alpha

The implication was clear. Jeremy would listen to me. Maybe only to me. "I'll tell him," I promised. "Right after I kill him for scaring me like this." Dr. Reeves smiled slightly. "Fair enough. I'll have a nurse come get you when he's settled in ICU." After she left, I sank into one of the wai

"Don't think too long. Because Em, if you're going to try to rebuild with him, you need tools. You need healthy coping mechanisms and communication strategies and ways to process your anger that don't involve pushing it down until it explodes." Aria's expression softened. "I love you. I want you to

"You can't keep punishing yourself," Emma said softly. "That doesn't help me heal. It doesn't undo what happened. It just creates more trauma." "I'm starting to see that." I looked down at our joined hands. "Emma, I want to fix us. Want to fix me. But I don't know how. Don't know where to start."

"That's not true," Jeremy said, his voice breaking. "Emma, you were never—" "It felt true!" I shouted, the anger finally breaking free. "It felt like I didn't matter! Like I was just a means to an end, a broodmare with the right bloodline!" The words hung in the air between us, raw and painful.