Chapter 103

Have you ever felt the kind of pain where you could physically feel your own heart breaking? That was

what was happening to me I knew that I had let him down and I had he him but I didn’t run to Gabriel

like he had run to Angela.

“Addie, are you sure that this is what you want

stood with me in the middle of the terminal.

I nodded snitting. “I need to get away for a little bit This place it’s suffocating”

Thad responsibilities here, manly the movie but I just couldn’t stay. Not when this had all unfolded. I

needed to breathe different ar I needed to be away from lum.

“Aww Adie,” she pulled me into her arms “I swear I’m going to kill him”

I pulled away from my sister and brushed away the stray tears that had fallen from my eyes. “Don’t.

Leave him be. We both need the space and tune to think about whether or not we want to continue this

or not.”

“Wait, continue this? Are you saying you are thinking of divorce?”

I didn’t want to say the word but it felt like we were at that crossroad I didn’t know if it was the hurt

talking or the months. and months of fighting that had been building. But it felt like we were there

“I don’t know. All I know is that I don’t want to lose him, especially with this baby on the way. I caressed

my barely-there bump. “But I can’t keep loving like this. I know that I messed up and I wanted to make

it right but then to see him him

with

The way she had held him and the fact that she was that close to him made my entire chest squeeze

all over again.

“I need to go”

It was one of the hardest decisions that I ever had to make but I needed to make it for me. I had been

choosing him and my family for so long and now it was time to look inwardly and understand what it

was that I truly wanted.

“Okay, go. But as soon as you land, call me okay? I need to know you’re safe

I didn’t want to take the jet because he would find me and figure out exactly where I was. I needed to

disappear without him being able to trace me.

Switzerland was perfect. He didn’t know about my grandmother’s lake house and I knew that I would

be able to breathe away from the paparazzi and the rumor mills. I was sure that Angela would leak a

story just so she could get an edge over me. I put nothing past that woman,

My phone buzzed in my pocket and when I took it out, low and behold it was the very man I was

running from. 1 allowed it to ring out

“It will be okay, Adie. You two will find your way back together again. You’re Adelaide and Damon,

you’re the epic love story that people raved about. And I know that somehow, someway, you will make

it through this”

Thanks, Rina,” I pulled her in one last time before I stepped back. “I need to get going. Don’t want to

get left behind.”

“Adie?”

“Yeah”

“I’m sorry,” she cast her eyes downward. “I should have listened to you when it came to her. I should

have seen what a danger she was.”

“She’s good at hiding her snake-like nature.”

“I know it’s just that. I should have been there as your sister.”

“You’re here now. That’s what matters”

We said our goodbyes and I walked away from my sister with the heaviest heart.

When I first landed at LAX I had been so hopeful. I had been positive that the move here would have

done us a great deal of good. But now as I left LA behind for who knows how long, I realized that this

may have been the greatest mistake I had ever

made.

I was right about coming to Switzerland. It was much slower than what LA had been. The air was

cleaner and there was no noise. I could hear myself thinking here.

I had stayed away from social media for the past four days, really taking the time to immerse myself in

the nothingness of it

all.

I had received hundreds of messages from my husband and I had avoided them all. I had been good

for the first three days but now as I lay awake in the bed in my grandmother’s lake house I couldn’t

deny that I missed him. But every time I

Chapter 103

thought of burn I would see her in my mind night after and then I was right back to the hurt

A single tear fell from my eyes as I stared up at the ceiling

open

light pollution and I could watch the stars

room creaked open and I

voon to beam D

the dark space. I loved that here there was barely any

wing here. The rest of the staff only can

1

I had two opcions to ether play dead or make a run for it. But with me being pregnant I didn’t know if I

would be fast

“I know you re awake peach”

“Grand” I sat up and found her at the edge of my bed with a smile on her face. You’re here!”

I don

came to

ade

voice broke in the end my pess was from a

my check and t

the lean

“Ce by sweet pri

I leaned into her touch needing to feel her comfort and warmth. The tears fell much faster now and the

floodgates were

closed M

“Come here,” she pulled me into her arms. Im so sorry that this happened to you, my girl”

“You know”” I saad to the crook of her neck

“Yes. Runa called me and said you may need me.”

Of course he had

I was trying to fight back the tears. I had been a blubbering mess the past few days and I was tired of

the pain but here it was again. Every time I thought I drained myself of it, it all came fooding back to me

like a total ware

She allowed me to cry in her arms until the tears had dred and I was left feeling compimely and unerly

“Talk to me peach”

I pulled out of her bold and looked down at my lap. My ring glistened the moonlight. A ring I loved so

dearly and looked ar as a symbol of has unwavering and undying love for me. The vows we had made

to each other. The promuses we had saad we would keep All of that now all fallen to dust

Here we were, an ocean apart and our hearts breaking with each painful beat

Bring

from hum

“I don’t know what to do.” I stuffed. “I love hum I know I do but after all these months of fighting and that

woman coming in between us time and time again I st

I didn’t know if I could finish the words.

“You know he would never cheat on you nigh

I remained silent. The truth of the matter was that I believed that he would not cheat on me but it didn’t

mean that his running to her didn’t hurt

“You two just need some time apart and after that, you will both com

me apart and after that, you will both come together again like you always do.”

I wanted to be hopeful. I wanted to believe that this could happen for us but the more I sat with my

sadness the more dreary the outcome looked.

I feared that this was the end for harm and I and I didn’t know what that meant for my future or this

baby’s