The One He Let Go

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t, America's rising star, has filed for divorce after a decade-long marriage to Miss A, sources close to th

teady myself, I was on live television

pdates on this developi

off, I exhaled sharply. Peeling off my earpiece, I leaned

headline. He was my hus

but no one knew he belonged to me. I had agreed to keep it private, thinking it woul

buzzed on

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the strength for her right now. Declining the call, I

only to see the message

u won't last in

r mission to remind me I wasn't good enough for her son. From the day Anderson

en a survival of the fittest. But today, her words felt like more th

through my thoughts. I nodde

..

houghts spinning faster than the car's tires. My fingers hovered ov

ans

gain. Stil

ion boil

ired off the text and threw th

ponding. But it wasn't Anderson. It was a notifi

rson Grant Spotted

tos loading slowly, pixel by pixel. And then I sa

te. My tw

my head as tears stung my

I stepped down. Within secon

...

le and suffocating. My eyelids fluttered open

?" a calm v

y neck. A man in a white coat stood beside

ce came out raspy, f

the middle of the road. Someon

g back. The broadcast. Ev

pho

, a sharp pain shoot

ne-wher

doctor said, his ton

ne!" I snapped

shook as I unlocked it, praying that what I had seen earlier had been so

. She

rance after 10 years was suspicious. She had left without a trace

earable. I yanked it out, s

?" the doctor deman

, choking back the sob

on to leave." His hand clo

y voice cracked,

e, his grip fi

sure my patients do

ears streaming down my face. "Everythi

tened, but his gri

ait. Right now, you need

me. I slumped back onto the

ears, not really expecting an an

It was as if he was pitying me. I hated when people pitied m

ce and stood again. This

sy," he said softly as

word, I