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.

his door. "Sir,

time on his phone-noon. It must be past midnight where she

asleep,

to

saw the flood of praise

had really pulled off a

credit, he'd managed to gild his

hand

the divorce had become

drop of value

ruthless, shrewd operator-Vince shuddered to think what kind of

taken Timothy's

doom-scrolling through Twitter, only to

immediately, a new trending topic popped

Post Without

couldn't help but admire Timothy's knack for managing publicity. By now, the

the majority were singing

asked if Timothy had kept his

beautiful, he was afraid

a screenshot of the comment and

to clear

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