(No longer in love) Chapter 7: Alex’s Release
On the day Alex was released, 1 prevented Lucian from joining us.”He doesn’t want to see you. Give us some space”
1 don’t know if Lucian found out something
He’d been home more often. His mannerisms were curious, almost apologetic,
But i didn’t care anymore.
Alex had visibly aged, his once vibrant hair shorn dows,
Seeing me, Alex smiled. His first words were for me, his hand gently caressing my hair when we were children Did you suffer when 1 was in jail, Millie?”
I couldn’t stop the tears.
“It’s over, little sweetie. Brother was back, and we’re together again, I will protect you from suffering”
I took brother back to the apartment that I had already rented,
Alex went to take a shower and changed his dothes, and I was cooking, Alex ate ravenously, his appreciation genuine and heartwarming
Lucian’s calls flooded my phone, but I didn’t answer,
“You should go home, Millie, Lucian’ll be worried,”
Alex still believed my marriage was intact as it was in the beginning. He didn’t know the truth.
Lucian really loved me in the beginning
At least until I got married, I always thought so.
Later I knew that Lucian had an ex–girlfriend, Katie,
Katie came back to Lucian with her child.
Katie had an unhappy marriage and had a bastard ex–husband, even if she was divorced, she has been pestered,
Lucian paid for her ex–husband and arranged for her daughter to be enrolled in the best kindergarten in the city.
Lucian arranged everything for Katie in every detail,
Then I found out that Lucian’s devotion had been equal, lavish, to each woman he loved; Katie and I were just interchangeable parts in his life.
