Chapter 170: MANDY

I just know that one-day we were fine and the next, it was as if I'd never existed for him. Seriously, that's how he did it. He didn't even have the decency to tell me we were over.

I saw him one night for dinner, and the next day when I ran into him, running to his side all smiles and genuinely excited to see him, he'd looked right through me.

I've never been treated so coldly in my life by anyone, not even when I was nothing more than the daughter of a prostitute. His behavior had cut deep. It's a wound that still has yet to heal.

As hard as I wracked my brain then and now, I still can't figure it out. It wasn't possible that he could've found out about my little side action. That had nothing to do with us, those men that I was using had been in the picture long before he and I became a thing.

They were just the backup I needed just in case. There's nothing wrong with that is there? After all, I'd suffered enough loss and disappointment in life to know you always need to hav