The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 265

The Secret Between Us 

LUCAS’S POV: 

I thought about the proposal. Martin on one knee in the backyard while the fireworks went off and everyone we loved was screaming and Cherry had her phone light on like we were at a concert. I had said yes before he finished the sentence. I had cried ugly happy tears all over his suit. 

And this whole time. This whole entire time. 

“You should have told me,” I said. “Before the proposal and before any of it. You should have told me.” 

“I know,” he said. “You are right. I know.” 

“But you did not,” I said. 

“No,” he said. “I did not.” 

I stood up because I needed to do something with my body and staying on that sofa was not an option anymore. I walked to the window and stood there looking at the street below and I thought about all the times something had felt slightly off and I had told myself I was being paranoid. The relationship paranoia that people who have been hurt before develop and spend years trying to talk themselves out of. 

I had talked myself out of it. And I had actually been right to feel it. 

“I need you to leave,” I said. 

“Lucas.” 

“Not forever,” I said. “I just need you to not be in this room right now because I cannot think properly with you sitting there looking at me like that.” 

He stood. He looked at me one more time. Then he left. 

I stood at the window for a very long time after the door closed. 

Here is the thing nobody tells you about being let down by someone you love. 

They tell you about the anger. They tell you about the grief. They tell you about the sleepless nights and the going over things and the way you suddenly notice the absence of someone in every room of your life because they had filled so many of them without you realizing. 

What they do not tell you about is the embarrassment. 

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