Chapter 8

LUCAS

I should have seen it coming.

Women are all the same.

They all want the same thing.

To lure you, pretending to be something that they’re not just to lure in-to give you a false sense of security and then they trap you.

I came home to find Kate had set a romantic dinner out on the terrace. She was looking so delicious in her tight red dress, I wanted to skip dinner and take her straight to bed. I should have suspected something was up when she had a hired a string quartet to serenade us while we dined.

“I cannot marry you, Kate. I have repeatedly told you this.”

“I thought since you’re getting a divorce..?” She trailed off and blinked rapidly. She looked so forlorn, so crushed like her breath had been sucked out of her.