The Truth Comes Out

MARISSA

Layton had stilled completely, shock registering on his face to learn that Brice and I had been engaged. “I thought I loved him. I wanted to marry him. On the day of the wedding, he told me I was a whore. He said he didn’t even believe Annie was his. He also told me he never wanted to marry me and I could get fucked if I thought I was going to trap him like this.”

“He left you at the altar?” Layton concluded quietly. I nodded, blinking back tears at the memory. They were no longer tears of pain, though. They were tears of red hot humiliation.

“In front of my family and friends, standing there by myself in this pretty white dress I made myself,” I finished the story, lowering my voice. “Annie is his, Layton. I’m not a whore and I never have been. He was only saying it to get out of having to take responsibility for her. He was the only person I’d ever slept with back then.”

Searing pain flashed in Layton’s eyes. For a second, I thought telling him the story had hurt him, but th