The Wedding Day Abandonment

Chloe showed up at

staring at a blank TV sc

face tight with disappr

ed, but she trie

looked

ap of her purse. "That was... a mess.

ked, my voice d

ust... he was in a really bad

use. I'd heard i

d abandon me?

hat, Ethan. I thought you'd und

I stood up. I felt strangely calm, a

o. We can work through this. It w

. You chose Damien. You've always chosen Damien

s not

im from our savings. All those nights you spent comforting him instead of being with me. I

do

. Not you. And I need a

. The victim act was starti

st tense hung in the air between us.

years, and you're ju

oe. When you walked out

lled out a piece of paper. It

y voice businesslike. "The joint savings acco

, her expression shifting from plea

plet

savings account. The account where I'd been putting money asi

lower than I expect

teller for

drawal, made two month

od ran

the savings account. There's almos

e on h

hl

y said, her voic

at. Wher

program. And he had some debts. Rea

starting. I'd even felt a flicker of hope. "You took twenty thousand

I was just waiting for the right

low sound. "With what? He hasn't held a

better! This program

rayal was a fresh stab, deeper than the

oney," she sa

rom my bonuses, my savings bef

o replace it,"

ow

't have

ung

earlier was gone, repl

ts' house, to the guest

d putting together, filled with pictures

ds trembling, and thre

g, the frame cracking,

ove, my money, all wasted on her and he

he bed, my he

edding. It was everything. The whole relationship had