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We share an aard sesture to the sofa – neutral territory and she obeys, slipping off her sandals and curling her legs underneath her as she sinks into the cushion farthest away fro you want to know Noone knee up and down, she twists the ring on her thuh and push er than I want to ad to be evasive…" She ss

"Anything you want to know Even if the truth is hard to hear," I confirly truth, I won’t Not if that’s not what she wants "I’ve been married for four years For the past te haven’t lived in the same state"

"Why was she at your house that day?"

"Who the fuck knoith her We’ve been trying to settle our divorce for a long ti"

She licks her lips, thinking over this information "Is she the reason you went to New York?"

"Yes, Stella lives in New York with her boyfriend I went there to try and talk to her about the terms of our divorce in person That didn’t work"

Her forehead creases "She has a boyfriend?"

I nod "Our forot s down in a frown "Oh"

"It turns out that she never loved h my family warned me about her motives, I couldn’t see it I wanted a woman in my life, and I don’t know" I rube… But I liked the company, the co to share my life with" I sound like a complete pussy, but that was how the twenty-four year old me saw the world

And Stella was the perfect trophy wife, acco in the latest fashions and always a happy smile on her lips Too bad it had all been fake

"What happened?" Sophie asks, her tone softening

"Things changed as soon as we got engaged I thought it was just stress over planning the wedding–she wanted it to be the affair of the decade, so about for years to co it I didn’t see at the time that it was all for show It was ne than it was aboutintently I have no fucking clue why I’ tells s between us, I need to bare h my brothers tried to talkto be fine I wasn’t going to call offinto a bridezilla I figured it would all settle down after the wedding day"

"But it didn’t?" Sophie asks softly