Chapter 155

I turned around to see Neil standing there with a grim face, having clearly heard me call him a “jerk.”

I waved to Cathie coolly. “You should head off, drive safe tonight”

Cathie nodded, shot Neil a glare, and zoomed off with a press of the gas pedal.

She’s so free and easy, so cool.

If I had been half as free spirited as her, I wouldn’t have ended up with Neil, and none of this would have happened.

“So I’m a jerk in your eyes?” Neil’s voice was icy cold.

“What I think of you doesn’t matter, as long as you’re the best man in Bonnie’s eyes, that’s enough, isn’t it?” I retorted, “Neil, get a grip, Bonnie is important to you, and not just because of Karina. Stop coming to me with all this weird stuff.”

Ready to leave, I turned around only to have Neil grab my wrist and force me into his car. I tried to open the door, but it wouldn’t budge.

“What the hell are you doing? I demanded, my wrist,aching from his grip.

“What’s this about?” Neil pulled out a handful of photos, his tone icy

I took the photos and was taken aback. They were of me and Oscar, who I had run into at a Day of the Dead ceremony

We had shared a meal and he had hugged me before we parted Somehow, that had been caught on camera.

From the angle of the photo, we looked like a couple.

“Where did you get these?” I asked.

“Why were you hugging him? I thought you were just friends?” Neil was angry, as if I had cheated on him

when they were taken. We were divorced by then. What

attempted to open the door again. “Unlock the

pissed. He unlocked the door, but just as I was about to climb out, he leaned over and

got angry and

the thin fabric of his shirt, my teeth dug hard into Neil’s

hit by me several times before, but he never

of Neil My teeth had drawn

his sleeve, swearing, “How many

mouth with a napkin, “Open the door, or I’m

was pale. He finally unlocked the

his parents, hed be

to find out who had

taken

good connections in the industry and could

you

put down my phone and glanced at Neils car through the

be so persistent, even giving

was too late now

hadnt experienced such deep pain, or if he was not

went on, I could have let go of my resentment and let the child recognize him as his father. But there

perspective, he and I were a past that shouldn’t

fiftieth birthday was coming up in a few

focused on planning a birthday

and the others would certainly come. As for the other guests,

invited Russel, my best friend, I was more

couldn’t be ignored in the business circle was the Whitmore family. The Whitmores and the Finches were once allies through marriage, but now they

the rest

corner with Stella Barbara, and Alicia, eating and chatting Mitch was there too, and somehow his

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