An Open Marriage Agreement That He Suddenly Refused To Honor Chapter 22

An Open Marriage Agreement That He Suddenly Refused To Honor Chapter 22

I’d wanted to reason things out with Lila.

She wasn’t foolish; she ought to know staying with me was the best choice for her.

I admitted I’d gone too far before, but I was ready to rein myself in from now on.

I’d rehearsed countless words to say, yet the second I saw the hickey on her neck, every single one vanished

from my mind.

In that instant, I wanted to smash everything in sight.

I wanted to demand what she thought she was doing.

I even wanted to grab a knife, stab her, then end my own life too.

How could she betray me?

How could she ever turn her back on me?

Just a few months ago, she’d cried herself to sleep over me staying out all night, her pillow soaked with

tears. How could she fall for someone else in such a short time?

All she did was sneer and throw my own words back at me.

“Funny how you don’t recognize them when they’re on someone else.”

I fell completely speechless.

She was right.

I was the one who first proposed we stay out of each other’s lives.

I was the one who cheated first.

What right did I have to blame her?

Wasn’t this exactly the arrangement I’d wanted?

Young, vibrant women had come and gone in my arms, and I’d grown addicted to the thrill of novelty.

They’d look up at me with adoration, singing my praises.

They’d never seen me at my lowest, most broken state.

It wasn’t so much that I loved them, but that I loved the version of myself they saw-

flawless, powerful, invincible.

Not like the version of me Lila saw.

I knew she’d stood by me through all those hard years.

I knew I shouldn’t have treated her this way.

But every time I was with her, a voice in my head dragged me back to my past.

She’d bring up the old days after our fights, trying to sway my heart back to her.

She never knew those were the last stories I ever wanted to hear.

I’d made it big now.

I’d wanted to cut all ties with my humiliating past.

And that included cutting ties with her.