I hold back my tears. They aren’t sad tears, but angry ones, and once I get to my office I slam my door shut.
My phone is lit, indicating a message, so I storm over and pick it up.
Casen: I bet I know what that’s about.
He bets he knows what that was about? Of course he does. He was there when I got the text from Derrick. He fucked me last night knowing he sent out that email to everyone. He knows what it did to me back in high school and how it fueled me to do the horrible things I did.
My head lowers.
“Fuck!”
It was all a setup. It had to be. He was never going to forgive me for what I did. He got us back together so he could rip my heart to shreds just like I was trying to do to him. He told me he loved me just this morning. He took me to dinner at his parent’s home. He gave me false hope of a better future. He stuck up for me when it came to Reece, and for what? Why? Why go through all that if you are just planning to ruin my career and obliterate my heart? I love this job and now I have to leave it. All the work I’ve done to better myself is gone. He couldn’t just leave me be and walk away. No, he had to get his revenge.
I fall to the floor, my head lying on the seat of my desk chair, and I cry. Tears spill onto the leather and my head begins to throb. I want to be strong but more so I want to climb into Casen’s lap and have him make it all better. Now I know how he felt when all he wanted was me. I close my eyes and watch as that beautiful vision of our future together just fades far, far away.
