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u think...you have the right to break up with Theron? The marria
y sister stood beside me, her eyes filled with
thout mincing words. To them, my only job was to get married to Theron
ck. I didn't have all A's during high school and college, and I most definitely didn't have the brains to get into
amily package. Maybe that was why I had chased after Theron religiously. The news of the marriage had at least made me fee
ched and unclen
me a better person by my sister's standards. Trying to fit me into a box that wasn't mine.
his is my marriage with Theron we are tal
get married to Theron, she wouldn't have been stup
voice shook. "You always do this. You treat me like I'm an outsider instead of your daughter. Even at this time, you are
as that was flowing through my veins was ruining me. By tomorrow, I would
much? I never asked to be given birth to...you could have just dump
ps. He had never slapped me before, no matter how much he'd been angry.
ncompetence. After all, I'd lost the only thing that kept me important to Hales: the marriage to Theron. Truthfully, somewhere inside me, I knew. That if i
n't let him finish, I turned up the stairs and
e behind the door as she knoc
ng my head on the pillow.
to talk," s
was just a broken girl. The one bullied at high school, the one who went for drawing and art, because I couldn't keep up with business or food nutrition, the one who did not know what went on in my father's company. It had always been like that; I was always the clueless and unse
n't want to be irrelevant. I didn'
, muffled. I shouldn't cry, but I couldn't keep it pent up
ys of the sunlight that spilled into the room. It was morning already, and the sun was up, which meant everyone
light headache that had accompanied me when I woke up earlier. That was th
quiet and empty when
adam Camila, "Wher
morning. They said they would be back
they didn't even know the source. I imagined them begging for Theron to accept me back
irs. Mireya's room door was sligh
to the room. Her table was rig
pieces as I stared at it. The same
. What wa
to it, and I stared at t
id g
pestering me about Aurelia. Your parents are here too, trying to shove her
ed to speak, but the wo
Are you still coming? This is the
't love me. Turns out, he was
parted.
k-" He paused. "Au
eya stared at me, her eyes shifting between m
t back a qui
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