Chapter 111: Disaster

Henley

My head pounded as I slowly opened my eyes. And the bright morning sunshine streaming in through the window didn’t help at all.

So, this was what it was like to have a hangover. I didn’t like it at all.

I turned on the shower when everything from the night before flooded my mind. Declan didn’t love me. He had said that knowing something in your heart didn’t make it real. I was in love with him, but our marriage, our love, wasn’t real. So, no matter how hard I tried, it wouldn’t make it real.

As the realization dawned on me, I wrapped my arms around my chest and slowly fell to the tub, sobbing, letting the water wash everything away. I cried not for what he had said, but for what could have been and everything we’d lost. I stayed like that, sobbing in the tub as the shower rained down on me for a long time, wishing things could be different. But they weren’t. This was reality. And this was all it was ever going to be.