Chapter 84 ~ Cry Me a River

As Rose drove away from the building, her hands gripped the steering wheel tightly. The pain that she had kept locked away for so long began to resurface, crashing over her in waves. The confrontation with Zoe, seeing the wedding band on Ethan’s finger, and hearing about the baby—all of it reopened old wounds she thought had long healed.

Her vision blurred as tears welled up in her eyes, but she forced herself to keep driving. She made a mistake on a turn and received several curses and loud horns from other drivers but even that couldn’t drown out the whirlwind of thoughts in her mind.

Memories she had buried deep started flooding back, each one a stab to her heart.

“Why is this happening? Am I cursed?” She asked herself as the hot tears rolled down her cheeks.

She could still see the look in Ethan's eyes when he accused her, the coldness in his voice when he sided with Zoe, and the emptiness in her heart when he left her alone on the most important dates, how her marriage was hidden