He Loved Her, Not His Wife

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, contemptuous smirk on her face. "There. It' s done. N

The irony was so thick I could choke on it. The divorce agreement I had just been gra

"You have no idea what you just did," I started to s

ched wail that sliced through

ed into a stampeding herd. Someone shoved me hard from behi

nocked off my feet, landing hard on the marble floor.

shin. I cried out, but my voice was lost in the chaos. People were trampling o

, her voice shrill with te

d his voice, sharp and commanding, cutting

comin

hope ignited in my chest

d people. His eyes were wild, scanning the floor, searching.

d right over me, a

lunged forward, shoving people aside. He gathered her i

rned to fight his way back through the cro

en glance at

as swallowed by the terrified screams around me. The heel of

im stop. He had almost reached the exit, B

e. The thought was a de

sk of grim determination. He was getting closer. My hea

t where we had fal

hed, ready to

His eyes were fixed on the

earring that must have

ut a single backward glance, disappeared into

d hear Bella' s voice, muffled but still cle

ur. "I found it, baby. I have it.

last thing I heard befo

rtant than a pi

ysical injury. It was a soul-deep wound, a final,

ain. The same private suit

sion, three broken ribs, and a fractured

' ll need surgery on your leg, bu

r the operating room, the d

always with him, stormed in. They were huge, impassi

surgeon demanded, stepping in front

them grabbed my arm, hi

her!" a n

ey. The pain in my leg was so intense, so blinding, that I

k of garbage, my bare feet dragging on the cold linoleum

loor of another room. A

scene before me. And it was a scene tha