Pain couldn’t begin to explain how Rose was feeling. Her knees felt weak and her heart felt like it had been ripped out of her body and she was left numb with no emotions left. She felt numb and couldn’t even cry from the amount of sadness she was feeling, ‘Ethan will never pick me over Zoe. I will always be the shadow in their relationship’ She thought as she wrapped her arms around herself.She had rushed out of the car and forgot to pick up her coat. The wind was blowing and the weather was extremely cold. Her feet had blisters from the heels and how long she had been walking. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn’t even remember seeing any taxi pass by.Her phone was getting low and a small part of her wished that Ethan had regretted leaving her out in the cold and turned the car around.“I should know better by now, he wouldn’t abandon his precious Zoe just for me!” She mused as the tears she was holding back began to fall on her face. She released and a dam erupted ins
The smell of cooked pasta hit Rose's nose as she walked into the kitchen. It was Amanda's day off so she wondered who would be cooking this early. Rose had woken up with a painful headache because of how much she had cried to sleep, her face was puffy and her eyes were swollen.When she woke up and found the bed empty, it didn't help her already sour mood. ‘So, he didn't even come home last night?’ she thought sadly as she turned and walked into the kitchen deep in her thoughts. “Good morning,” Ethan's deep voice stopped her in her tracks. He was freshly shaven and had a T-shirt with sweatpants on, he looked so handsome and it made Rose’s heart skip a beat. But despite how good he looked, The pain from the previous night was still fresh and Rose was angry.“Morning.” She responded roughly as she passed him and grabbed a glass of water. Rose was internally curious as to why Ethan was cooking, he was rarely at home and a part of her wondered if the food was for Zoe. Not wanting to
Several days had gone by and Rose had the greatest week of her life ever since she was married. It took time for Rose to fully trust Ethan again but upon seeing him spend the entire week with her, her heart was beating for him once again. The day she had been looking forward to had finally arrived! Ethan would now know he would be a father and her heart couldn’t wait to see the excitement on his face.“Don’t forget about tomorrow’s appointment,” Rose said sleepily.“I won’t,” Ethan assured her and she drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face. The next morning,Her eyes stirred awake and turned but found that her side of the bed was empty. She touched it and all the sleep from her eyes disappeared.It was cold, so that meant Ethan had gotten up a long time ago.Rose stood and felt guilty, she wondered if he was behind on work because he had taken so many days off just to be with her. Wrapping the robe around her, she walked downstairs to search for him but everything looked the s
A bright light shone through the curtain and everything felt so quiet. “Rose,” Natalie’s voice came, tears on her best friend's face made Rose realize she hadn’t been dreaming. It happened and she was truly in an accident.“My baby!” Rose’s tears began to fall down her face as she held her stomach protectively.“Calm down, you’re still hurt. The baby is fine.” Natalie’s words made Rose sigh in relief and lay back down on the bed.Her body was sore and everything on her was hurting. She looked at Natalie, “How long has it been?”“A few hours, babe what the hell happened? I almost got a stroke and followed you to the afterlife!” Natalie said as she sat back on the chair next to Rose.Despite how much pain she was in, Natalie would always put her in a good mood. Her best friend was a free spirit and didn’t tolerate any nonsense from anyone. At times, Rose found herself wishing she was as strong as Natalie.“I was driving myself to the medical checkup,” Rose explained, her heartstrings fee
“By the time you’re nine months, that baby will have finished all your savings, I should have indicated more settlement!” Natalie teased as she passed Rose a bowl of noodles that she had been craving.“Natalie!”“I mean, it’s not like we’re going to go broke, your bastard husband’s 50% will settle us for life!” Natalie laughed in between bites.She had taken some days off work so that she could help Rose get better. Rose had been staying at Natalie’s house for five days now since the day of the accident. She had recovered and the body pains reduced in such a short period. Knowing her best friend was going through the worst time of her life, she avoided talking about Ethan. Except when she was slandering him bitterly for hurting Rose. “Oh, I forgot to tell you. Mason is back.” Rose said and Natalie’s eyes widened, a mischievous twinkle in them that made Rose shake her head.“You don’t say! How did you know?” Natalie asked.Natalie had met Mason a few times when he used to visit Rose a
“I don’t have time for games Ethan,” Rose said bitterly.“You’ve been away from home for four days, you’ve been ignoring my calls and now you’ve shown up to pack and just leave?”“Does it surprise you?” “Why are you so moody lately?” Ethan accused and it only made Rose angrier.‘Has he been so blind that he doesn't even see how much I've been hurt or is it that my feelings don't matter?’ It was true that Rose tried to be as less a burden to Ethan as she could. When she wasn't feeling well, when she was anxious, or needed to share great news with him. She brushed it off because she didn't want to do anything that would make him angry when all she wanted was to win his heart.Having held onto such needs for so long must have made Ethan think she just didn't care about such things but deep down it was eating her up. But she was done! And explaining what he had done wrong wasn't on her plans, so she glared at him like he was an obstacle in her way,“Your face is annoying me, how can I
“I'm fine Natalie! Stop calling me every five minutes like I'm a toddler!” Rose complained on the phone. “I'm just checking in, to see if you miss me! What's wrong with that?” Natalie protested but Rose saw right through her.“Bye, Natalie. I have an exhibition to prepare for!” Rose cut the line and went back to designing the necklace she had been working on for some time now. A week had passed since Rose took her bags from Ethan's house and she hadn't heard from him since then. Her heart was still bleeding but she kept herself busy with work so she wouldn't think too much about it. She had a jewelry company but she was slowly building it because her focus had always been Ethan. She wanted to be at home as much as possible and tend to his needs. But now that he was out of the picture, she wanted to focus on building the company seriously especially since she had a child on the way. Rose knew how painful it was to live with no money and how unfair society was to the poor. “You will
“Don’t tell me it’s him calling again!” Natalie shot Rose a look.It was four days later and Rose had just told Natalie about what happened and Natalie had very colorful words for him. “I’m not crazy, I won’t pick up,” Rose responded.“Good.” Natalie said as she passed Rose a glass of juice, “Because if I were you, I wouldn’t save him even if he was drowning!”“Aren’t you late for work?” Rose questioned.“I am but my anger is skyrocketing right now! I’m mad at you too, how could you go out that late in your condition?” “It won’t happen again, now go. All the best on your case today.” Rose changed the subject.Constantly having to talk about Ethan was draining her and she just wanted to breathe. “Thanks, babe! I’ll see you later.” Natalie said as she grabbed her documents and rushed out. Rose saw a message pop up on her phone and opened it in case it was important. When she opened it, she saw that it was a message from Ethan but what it said made her heart jump to her throat.ETHAN