Chapter 8

A week later, Brandon received a package. It was my journal that was taken away by Olivia.

It had detailed my love and hatred toward Brandon, from when I was sixteen until I was twenty-six.

I was floating mid-air as I watched Brandon carefully open the journal.

[We got married. I begged him to buy me a diamond ring, then I could pretend he had proposed to me. But the diamond ring brochure that he had in his wallet was very pretty.]

[31 January 2015

I accidentally fell down. Before Jack was born, I begged the doctor to call Brandon. Before the doctor could say a word, Brandon said, “Can you stop calling me? I’m busy!”

It was quite painful. I did not know if the pain was from giving birth or from his words.]

[4 April 2019

Someone beat me up in the rehab center, but I did not cry.

But when I was discharged and saw Olivia playing with Jack alongside Brandon like a true family, I cried. I squatted on the ground and cried very hard.

For the first time in my life, I felt so wea