CHAPTER 115

NICK

My feet felt heavy as I walked out of the room, I felt empty inside as I was leaving my heart behind. She did not want me anymore and she was ready to marry someone else. Why couldn’t she see me, why couldn’t she see that I was there, trying to make things right between us. Why won’t she give me a few minutes of her time to explain what I had been doing?

It hurt me to see her cry like that, for the first time since she got out, I saw how hurt she was by my actions. I wished I could tell her how much I regretted everything, how sorry I was and to tell her that I had fixed grandma’s grave. That I had sent Sandra up stairs and had her locked up in there. That she was never going to hurt her or us again.

To tell her that everything was going to be okay, that I didn’t care if Samuel was not my son or that she slept with Marcus, I didn’t care about any of that. I just wanted her back. I needed her back. Tension gathered on my shoulders, and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I went to the