Don't fool me, Ex. I'll never marry you (again).
Mike would walk away clean, acting for the media as the poor husband betrayed by his wife, then enjoying that blood money with Lucy over my suffering.
"You really are something else, you bastard," I hissed, the veins in my neck tightening.
Tears of rage and humiliation welled in my eyes, but I quickly brushed them away. I refused to shed tears a second time. Every ounce of love evaporated, burned away by the fierce fire of revenge raging in my chest. Once, I died as a naive victim of love. Now, I am reborn to ensure that I am the one who writes the end of their story.