I Deleted You Traitor Even My Blade Forgot Your Name novel Chapter 12

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agreed to the divorce. Signed away Cole.

To them, it was reason to celebrate.

Couldn’t wait to take the contract and bounce.

While I packed, Kieran posted on Instagram.

hoto of him, Cole, and Margo. Matching outfits.

is face–always so controlled–wide open. Smiling.

ole looked the same. Beaming.

largo stood between them, looking like the perfect gentle mom.

glanced at it.

hen saw a text from Mom.

jot your passport. After you file tomorrow, come with me. Fly back when it’s time to sign.]

didn’t argue.

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used to tell myself I had to be a good mom.

otect Cole. Love him. Give him everything.

he’d know he was wanted.

ever told him that the day I had him, I almost passed out from the pain.

ack then, Kieran wasn’t there.

stayed awake anyway.

ecause I’d heard stories–babies getting switched. Stolen.

it down hard, forcing myself through wave after wave of pain.

nally couldn’t take it anymore. Called Kieran, crying.

at he didn’t pick up.

hought he was working,

wallowed the pain.

Jasn’t until I found out about Margo that I learned the truth

/hile I was in labor at Swedish Hospital, he was in someone else’s bed.

Then Cole spiked a fever in the middle of the night and I had an appendicitis attack–panicking, alone–Kieran was on a business trip in Portland

Iso screwing someone else.

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He ignored my pain.

Then when guilt kicked in?

Bought me stuff. Expensive stuff.

Saw me smiling–really smiling–and thought to himself: Damn, she’s easy.

He told me that. Out loud.

Turned my happiness over his gifts into some joke he could laugh about.

He forgot the year we lived in that Capitol Hill basement.

How he’d see other guys‘ girlfriends all done up, then look at me–exhausted from taking care of him–and cry.”

Iris, I’m so lucky I found you. Don’t know what I’d do without you.”

Said he’d give me the best..

Ised half his paycheck buying me dresses. Jewelry.

You deserve better. Just wait. I’ll give you everything they have. More.”

waited. And waited.

pent every day dreaming about our perfect little family.

But reality just kept stabbing at my heart–already full of holes.

After I packed, I tore up every photo of me in that house.

alled a cleaning service to scrub away every trace I’d ever been there.

hat night, Kieran and Cole didn’t come home.

didn’t call.

Text morning, showed up at the King County courthouse.

ieran arrived thirty minutes late.

iot out of his car, saw me in a red dress–the one I wore to our wedding–and something flickered in his eyes.

tunned.

hen gone.

le smirked.

Why are you wearing that? Having second thoughts?”

looked at him, shook my head.

‘Red’s a happy color. Today’s a good day.”

His smirk died.

Looked at my eyes–flat, calm as glass–and something in him panicked.

‘You serious? You’re not gonna regret this?”

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“Tris, I don’t do second chances. After today, we’re done.”

I pulled out my phone.

Deleted his number right in front of him.

Then walked toward the courthouse.

Let’s go.”

After we filed, I walked straight to Mom’s car.

Didn’t look back.

Kieran stood there watching me leave.

teached out like he wanted to grab me.

ut all he caught was air.

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