Chapter 2
The next few days at the plant were eenly quiet.
No one mentioned what happened on that little side road.
When I asked around, I heard that security had gotten there just in time-those punks were arrested, and Chadwick only had a small scratch on
his arm.
No scandal. No rumors.
He was even treated like a victim and got a few comforting words from management.
For the first time in years-hell, maybe in both lives-I could finally breathe easy.
No doomed marriage. No lifelong trap
I went back to work as usual-bolting parts, grinding metal, keeping my head down
The old Ellie was gone-the naive girl who thought marrying the right man was the key to happiness.
Now, I carried fire in my chest. A mix of fury and something new-purpose.
Every time I caught sight of Chadwick across the workshop, hunched over his blueprints, all prim in his pressed white shirt and glasses, disgust curdled in my gut.
I forced myself to look away.
Patience.
There’d be time enough to make him pay
For now, I had one goal: end the engagement clean
In the old timeline, he’d already been planning to dump me.
Skylar’s return just sped things up
So I waited
And sure enough, ten days later, on a warm Sunday afternoon, he showed up
I was outside the dorms, wringing out a week’s worth of laundry, sunlight son on my shoulders
He stood a few yards away, cuff and nervous hair slicked back, white shirt crisp, glasses gleaming
Tile he started, clearing his thinat “Can we talk?”
I dida) even pause what I was duing Tjust said calmly. To ahead
He head nulding his kandh ingether like a bol caught lying
Chapter 2
“It’s about… us. I’ve been thinking, and I just don’t think we’re right for each other.”
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