You Want That Watch? Then Watch Me Leave
Her eyes reddened, her lips quivered, yet she couldn't say a single word.
Her mother, my soon-to-be ex mother-in-law, Sophia Baker, rushed over and grabbed my collar. "Jayden, what kind of man are you? You humiliate her in front of everyone over a watch?
"That's just a keepsake from her friend who passed away. Are you jealous of a dead person? You don't deserve to be called a man!" She hit my chest with her fists.
I didn't respond. I only looked at Yasmin. Ten years together—from school uniforms to a wedding dress. I thought we were meant to be. But standing here, seeing how fiercely she clung to that watch. I realized I had never even been part of her beginning.