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Adrien Russell

I got a deja vu while I was driving recklessly through the dark highway at midnight. The exact same feelings I had years ago were being blown at my face. It hurt to realise that I was wrong about thinking that maybe Crystal and I could work this marriage out and be the perfect husband and wife for each other.

That picture of Evan's lips on Crystal's pierced through my heart. As I recalled that, numerous emotions rushed into me, making me accelerate the car and tighten my fist on the steering wheel.

I wasn't mad at Crystal or Evan for liking each other.

I was disappointed that I allowed myself to fall for someone I shouldn't have once again. I should have known that when the woman who claimed to love me and promised to be by my side forever didn't think twice before ghosting on me, how would someone bound to me by a contract would stay.

But if Crystal had feelings for Evan, why did she hide it from me? Why did she make me feel like we could be something together and why
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