Chapter 11

Day by day, the pressures of life and Matthew and Pamela's mutual resentment grew, until they finally boiled over. Roughly six months after I received the final payment for the house, I heard they had divorced.Pamela, with Holly in tow, slunk back to her distant hometown. Apparently, she barely had any decent luggage with her.Matthew, on the other hand, spiraled after the divorce. Without his wife's constant quarrels and the stability of home, he turned to drinking.One rainy night, he made his way to his night shift in a drunken state. Then, he slipped on a loading platform and shattered his right leg. Even after it healed, he might never walk the same. Naturally, he lost his job.Without an income and with medical bills piling up, I heard he could barely cover rent and had to move into a more run-down apartment farther from town. When I heard all that, I felt calm. There was neither satisfaction nor sympathy in me. After all, they reaped what they had sown. Their current

Chapter 12

I painted the walls a warm apricot, the shade I loved, and chose cotton-linen curtains with a simple leaf pattern. On the balcony, I placed a few low-maintenance green plants.One piece of furniture after another was added. It didn't need to be luxurious, just comfortable and exactly to my taste.The day I moved in was bright and sunny. When I carried the last box through the door of my new apartment and closed it behind me, the world seemed to fall silent.There were no prying eyes, no whispered jabs, and no suffocating schemes. All that remained was sunlight streaming through the room, the calm, and my own steady breathing.I poured myself a glass of water and sank into the sun-drenched couch, letting my gaze sweep across the space. There was no trace of Noah and no sign of the Campbells. The place was clean and new, marked by my personal touch and full of possibilities. Noah's accident had been a tragedy, a cruel blow that shattered my life. But from the wreckage and after

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