He could actually write something like that.

His lips twitched awkwardly, feeling almost too embarrassed to hit send.

But finally, with a reckless determination, he pressed the button.

Jessica's phone chimed several times in a row-messages from Timothy.

She glanced at the pictures and read through the three texts.

A wry smile tugged at Jessica's lips-equal parts amused and defeated.

If he'd said things like this even a few times in the past seven years, maybe she wouldn't have ended up so heartbroken and numb.

Now, the affection she once longed for from him was no longer something she needed.

The vine of love that had once grown in her heart had long since withered and died; no matter how much water he poured on it now, it would never come back to life.

She shut off her phone and went to bed.

Timothy sat there gripping his phone, waiting for her reply.

He waited half an hour.

An hour.

Nothing.

knocked on his door.

his phone-noon. It must be past

to be asleep,

to

through Twitter and saw the flood

pulled off

credit, he'd managed to gild

had to hand it

razor-sharp-even the divorce had become an opportunity for him to

last drop of value from

ruthless, shrewd operator-Vince shuddered to think

now if he'd taken Timothy's

doom-scrolling through Twitter, only to realize Timothy's

a new trending topic popped

Post Without a Second

admire Timothy's knack for managing

majority were singing

kept his marriage secret because

afraid to

took a screenshot of the comment and sent it to

clear this

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