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That one hurt him.

Good.

“I don’t want you.”

His jaw flexed.

“I need you to understand that.”

“Sam.”

I stepped closer.

“You keep acting like there’s some magical combination of words that’s gonna make me forget what you did.”

“I ain’t asking you to forget.”

“You’re waiting for me to forgive you.”

“I know you.”

“No, you don’t.”

“I know you better than that nigga ever fucking will.”

“You didn’t know me well enough to realize I was miserable.”

He went quiet.

“You didn’t know me well enough to know I was checking out of this marriage before I ever knew about Heather or Avery.”

“Because our sex got boring?”

“It wasn’t just sex!”

“Then what?”

“I was lonely!”

That shut him up.

I hadn’t even meant to yell it.

But there it was.

“I was fucking lonely, Xay.”

My eyes burned.

“Inside a house with a husband and four fucking children, I was lonely.”

He looked away.

“And every time I tried to tell you something was missing, you made me feel ungrateful.”

“I worked.”

“So did I!”