Game over.
I had told myself I was prepared for this, that I was ready to confront him, to demand answers, but I hadn’t been ready for the coldness, the utter certainty with which he cut me out of his life as though I had never been anything at all.
Still, I refused to let him see me break. I tightened my hands into fists, nails digging into my palms until the sting steadied me, and forced the words out through clenched teeth. “You’ll regret this,” I whispered, low but seething. “You’ll regret humiliating me. You’ll regret choosing her.”
His gaze didn’t soften, didn’t flicker. “The only regret I’ll ever have,” he said evenly, “is not having Maddie and my children in my life sooner. Nothing you do, Mich