"All I did was get a marriage certificate with Vivian. What's with the passive-aggressive attitude?"
"I know you're upset, so I'll give you a sum of money as compensation. That should be enough, right?"
I had already cried every tear I had for this man.
Wasting any more heartbreak on him wasn't worth it.
I held his gaze, steady and unblinking, and asked my final question.
"Stewart, in these six years, did you ever love me?"
His frown only deepened.
"You know Vivian's pregnant, and you insist on saying things like that in front of her? Are you trying to upset her?!"
"Just don't make a scene. After two years, I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you. Isn't that enough?"
The rest of his life making it up to me.
I had waited over two thousand days and nights for him to promise me forever.
Instead, I watched him give forever to someone else.
If what he felt for Vivian was only "like a sister," why would such a simple question threaten to break her heart?
There was no "rest of his life" left for me, Stewart. I couldn't afford to gamble anymore.
I turned to leave, but he suddenly remembered something and called me back.