Semua Bab Too Late, Ex-Husband: The Wife He Lost : Bab 1 - Bab 4

Shila povThe first time I coughed up blood, I told myself it was nothing.It was the morning of our fifth wedding anniversary, and I stood over the bathroom sink with my fingers gripping the cold marble, staring at the red drops against the white porcelain as though they belonged to someone else. My chest ached in a deep, strange way that no amount of breathing could ease, and the mirror showed me a woman who looked tired in a way sleep had stopped fixing months ago.I turned on the tap and watched it all wash away.*Stress,* I decided. *Or the weight of a marriage that is quietly slipping through your fingers.*I had become very good at explaining things away.Kairus had left before dawn again. His side of the bed was cold and perfectly smooth, and there was no note on the pillow, no message on my phone, nothing to suggest he remembered what day it was. But I remembered. And I refused to believe that a man who once promised me forever in front of two hundred guests had truly forgott

Shila pov Bianca did not ask a single question.She pulled up outside the Everdeen gates in her pajama pants and an oversized sweater, took one look at me standing on the pavement with Miss Grace's arms wrapped around me, and said, "Get in the car."Miss Grace pressed a small bag into my hands, her eyes swollen and red. "Your medicine is inside. And your mother's necklace." She hesitated. "Madam, if you need anything, anything at all, you call me.""I will," I whispered, and I hugged her for much longer than I had in five years. She smelled like lavender and old kitchens, like the only home I had left.Then I got into Bianca's car, and I did not look back at the house.---Bianca's apartment was small, warm, and a little messy, and it felt like stepping into a room where no one could ever hurt me.She sat me on the couch, wrapped me in a blanket that smelled of fabric softener, and put a mug of tea in my hands that I never drank. Then she sat beside me, pulled my head down onto her s