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She wasn’t interested She was quick to cut ties, and that cutmy body from war

The low chatter of the packed courtrooht of Dani finally walking in with a ridiculous entourage has h to ache

I understand Annalise being here Those two are connected at the hip and have been since I h school There’s no need, however, for her parents and a couple other friends to bear witness to my annihilation

Six years of e and Dani can’t even look in my direction as she sits down on the other side of the rooroup

As ait our turn before the flustered judge, I take a good, long look atface is twisted up in a mask of indifference that’s becoht and shining, gazing around looking for soet into There’s a hardness to her features right now thatsecond thoughts about throwing our love in a fire and watching it turn to ash?

My attorney clears his throat besideacross the roonore him like nors, and that’s it

Dani nodsher head in response

I just need one glance, one sweep of her eyes in my direction and I know I can pull her back in One quick second to change her mind Our love hasn’t been a fairy tale, but it’s been close Meeting in high school, all it took was that one look before we kneere going to be important to each other I just need that contact one last tiest mistake of her life

Her eyes aren’t the ones that meet mine

Annalise Grimaldi, Dani’s best friend since diapers and shit-stirrer extraordinaire, turns her head and sneers in my direction The woman would be a knockout if she wasn’t evil incarnate She’s always hatedfroed

Without thought, I tilt e, the very sao ere teens Only back then, I had the girl Back then, Dani would smack her friend on the arm and tell her to chill out I won the battles between Anna and o

Today, that doesn’t happen

Today, I lose everything

Ten years together, the last six married to the woman of my dreae A couple of signatures, not one word spoken between the two of us, and I walk out of the courthouse a changed man

Walking to ht of Dani wrapping her are irl as she e I never experienced

Both of her parents hated me from the jump, and if I ever took a step back and examined the relationship I had with Dani, I’d realize that it started out as rebellion on her side and it’s ending with her going ho ut, I always kneould be I was never enough for her, and no ht she deserved, I was always going to come up short