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Author: dreamywriter
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-01 00:02:41

Simon’s POV

I slide into the passenger’s seat as Tina takes the wheel, bringing the car out of the parking lot.

Sliding my phone out of my pocket, I unlock my phone sliding to a debit alert from the bank,

‘Not that it was a ridiculous amount leaving my account, but the recipient was one that bothered me, or rather who the recipient reminded me of.

The debit alert was of the monthly payments going to the private detective I hired to find Sarah,

‘Staring at the message, I realized that for the first time in a while, I could admit without feeling guilty that I didn’t even want to find her’

I could admit it, without my heart feeling like it was going to tear out of my chest, without that fevered feeling that took me whenever I thought about Sarah.

I could finally admit that Sarah was nothing but an annoyance without it breaking me apart.

I could see my stupidity, see the rightness in my mother’s words when I thought about the years of our unfortunate relationship.

It was hard, admitting
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