s'
ate. A
ntieth time tonight, my thum
just like the other messages I've left
en back at the door. The waiter approaches agai
picking up the empty glass on the tab
r finds it cute. "He'll be here any minute now. I'
f you have any dignity left, I'll advise you to grab your things and go
was right. I should have postponed our anniversary celebration. He told me he
ast answerin
tip of my tongue,
ans in. "It's almost midnight
for the door. "Thanks, but
s around myself, I look at both sides of the road, wondering if
und. He always does. He knows how
's when
are wrapped around the waist of someone else. His teeth glimmer under t
her ear, and I think I a
latinum-blonde hair is unmistakable, and the way she car
closer to him. His lips find hers, and sh
for five years, is kissing another
inside me tears. It sounds like a hiss, like dry wood tossed into a hea
tempt to fight it, my rage edging it on. It is hard to breathe, bu
lm. Last I checked, they were not that
lls. Heat floods my b
iend over there?" I hear Sabin
his lips mere inches
is really me. His eyes widen when he tak
rve of
hem. All that I can picture is that little grin on
feels sharper. I can tell the red and green apart in the neon lights of
e blocks away. A woman whispers, "Sh
ing to do? Fight back? We all know you are a two-goo
slowly stepping in front of her. "You
can contain. "You've been ignoring my texts all day, and now, you're right across
scoffs. "Don't blame him, Iris. You were just n
t, her back hits the wall behind her, a sharp crack echoing into the
?" I growl, my nails d
ling my arm. "Stop this rig
st person on my mind. I edge towards him, but just t
trying to crawl out of me. I can hear Archer somewhere in the dis
black in my vision. I fight hard against him, but his hold is too
me
cold voice responds. Somet
.who a
o just save
returns. I hear h
got