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Story: Letting My Husband Go
As Cara and I fell down the steps together, I felt a sensation of weightlessness rush over me.
“Sydnee!”
The following minute, Coley’s horrified scream could be heard.
I curled up because I felt a sharp, painful pain in my stomach.
Before I passed out, I saw Coley running towards me.
I had a weird dream.
In the dream, a tiny girl waved at me, but when I got close, she fled away. I rushed after her like crazy, but all I could see was her back.
“Sydnee… Sydnee…”
As I gently opened my eyes, I heard someone calling my name. There were a lot of people in the room, and Coley was standing across from me. My mother was the one who called my name.
I instantly felt for my belly as soon as I woke up. When she saw it, my mom’s eyes turned red.
“Is the baby… gone?” I questioned, my voice shaking.
No one replied me, but after a long wait, Coley eventually nodded.
“We can still have, Sydnee.”
Smack!
My father slapped Coley, and Sam, who was standing nearby, didn’t stop him at all.
My heart felt like it had been ripped apart when the baby was gone.
I looked at Coley and said in a voice that was barely above a whisper.
“Mom, Dad, I want to talk to Coley by myself.”
My mom gave me the divorce papers as they were leaving. Coley’s eyes were glued on the papers in my hand.
Finally, when we were alone, he moved forward, took my hand, and begged me to forgive him.
“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry, Sydnee. It’s all my fault. I should have kept you and our kid safe! ”
Then he hit himself hard over and over again.
I looked at him coldly and didn’t draw my hand away.
Coley lied to me that day. He hadn’t been at a business meeting. He had met Cara by the lake, where they used to go.
He had told her there, “Let’s forget about the past.” Sydnee is currently pregnant.
But Cara had gotten it wrong.
“You don’t even care about her. You only married her because your family wanted you to, right? That’s fine with me, Coley. You know how much I care about you.
Coley had always understood how Cara felt about him, which is why he never stopped her from openly teasing me before. But this time, he pushed her away.
He told Cara, “I love her and want to be with her.”
Hearing Coley tell the story made me laugh.
“I don’t want your cheap love.” “Just give it to someone else.”
Coley wanted to say more, but I stopped him.
“Would you believe me if I said I just found out about you and Cara?” ”
His face changed from confusion to something else right away. He couldn’t have imagined it, but it didn’t matter anymore.
“I thought I owed you something,” I said, looking him in the eye. “But I don’t.” You stopped caring about Cara. You gave up on a love that never even got off the ground. You also wasted my love for three years. “Now a life is lost,”
I couldn’t speak because I was crying, and I swatted his hand away when he tried to wipe my tears.
“If you really do love me, sign the divorce papers.”
Coley didn’t move. It felt like ages until he finally signed the papers.
“I don’t want to divorce you, but I hope this can be a fresh start for us,” he stated.
It was so ironic to hear that.
Coley came to see me at the hospital every day after that, but my family always kicked him out.
The last time we saw each other was when we signed the divorce papers.
“Cara’s been sentenced,” Coley stated as he looked at my face, but I didn’t show any emotion.
I bought a plane ticket to go to another country that night.
I had almost entirely given up on my passions while I was with Coley.
The day after I got to the other country, my mum called me.
“Coley spent the whole night kneeling outside our house, and now he’s in the hospital.” “After he found out you weren’t coming back, he begged us to tell him where you went,” she said. “We didn’t tell him anything, so he kept kneeling until he fell over.”
I snorted gently and kept painting.
My mother said, “We’re going to slowly move our business overseas.” “We can’t leave you alone.”
She made me realise how much I had ignored my family because of Coley. Still, they had always been there for me.
My family came to see me overseas two weeks later.
Our housekeeper called us numerous times to let us know that Coley still came over every day. He wouldn’t believe us when we told him we had gone to another country. He even tried to break in after being stopped at the door, but he was arrested.
Sam was so angry that his blood pressure went up to a dangerous level, and he had to go to the hospital.
He soon said that the Gabbs had more than one child.
Coley’s stepmother also had a child, which put Coley’s place in the family in a lot of danger.
But none of that mattered to me now.
I had my whole life ahead of me.
“Sydnee!”
The following minute, Coley’s horrified scream could be heard.
I curled up because I felt a sharp, painful pain in my stomach.
Before I passed out, I saw Coley running towards me.
I had a weird dream.
In the dream, a tiny girl waved at me, but when I got close, she fled away. I rushed after her like crazy, but all I could see was her back.
“Sydnee… Sydnee…”
As I gently opened my eyes, I heard someone calling my name. There were a lot of people in the room, and Coley was standing across from me. My mother was the one who called my name.
I instantly felt for my belly as soon as I woke up. When she saw it, my mom’s eyes turned red.
“Is the baby… gone?” I questioned, my voice shaking.
No one replied me, but after a long wait, Coley eventually nodded.
“We can still have, Sydnee.”
Smack!
My father slapped Coley, and Sam, who was standing nearby, didn’t stop him at all.
My heart felt like it had been ripped apart when the baby was gone.
I looked at Coley and said in a voice that was barely above a whisper.
“Mom, Dad, I want to talk to Coley by myself.”
My mom gave me the divorce papers as they were leaving. Coley’s eyes were glued on the papers in my hand.
Finally, when we were alone, he moved forward, took my hand, and begged me to forgive him.
“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry, Sydnee. It’s all my fault. I should have kept you and our kid safe! ”
Then he hit himself hard over and over again.
I looked at him coldly and didn’t draw my hand away.
Coley lied to me that day. He hadn’t been at a business meeting. He had met Cara by the lake, where they used to go.
He had told her there, “Let’s forget about the past.” Sydnee is currently pregnant.
But Cara had gotten it wrong.
“You don’t even care about her. You only married her because your family wanted you to, right? That’s fine with me, Coley. You know how much I care about you.
Coley had always understood how Cara felt about him, which is why he never stopped her from openly teasing me before. But this time, he pushed her away.
He told Cara, “I love her and want to be with her.”
Hearing Coley tell the story made me laugh.
“I don’t want your cheap love.” “Just give it to someone else.”
Coley wanted to say more, but I stopped him.
“Would you believe me if I said I just found out about you and Cara?” ”
His face changed from confusion to something else right away. He couldn’t have imagined it, but it didn’t matter anymore.
“I thought I owed you something,” I said, looking him in the eye. “But I don’t.” You stopped caring about Cara. You gave up on a love that never even got off the ground. You also wasted my love for three years. “Now a life is lost,”
I couldn’t speak because I was crying, and I swatted his hand away when he tried to wipe my tears.
“If you really do love me, sign the divorce papers.”
Coley didn’t move. It felt like ages until he finally signed the papers.
“I don’t want to divorce you, but I hope this can be a fresh start for us,” he stated.
It was so ironic to hear that.
Coley came to see me at the hospital every day after that, but my family always kicked him out.
The last time we saw each other was when we signed the divorce papers.
“Cara’s been sentenced,” Coley stated as he looked at my face, but I didn’t show any emotion.
I bought a plane ticket to go to another country that night.
I had almost entirely given up on my passions while I was with Coley.
The day after I got to the other country, my mum called me.
“Coley spent the whole night kneeling outside our house, and now he’s in the hospital.” “After he found out you weren’t coming back, he begged us to tell him where you went,” she said. “We didn’t tell him anything, so he kept kneeling until he fell over.”
I snorted gently and kept painting.
My mother said, “We’re going to slowly move our business overseas.” “We can’t leave you alone.”
She made me realise how much I had ignored my family because of Coley. Still, they had always been there for me.
My family came to see me overseas two weeks later.
Our housekeeper called us numerous times to let us know that Coley still came over every day. He wouldn’t believe us when we told him we had gone to another country. He even tried to break in after being stopped at the door, but he was arrested.
Sam was so angry that his blood pressure went up to a dangerous level, and he had to go to the hospital.
He soon said that the Gabbs had more than one child.
Coley’s stepmother also had a child, which put Coley’s place in the family in a lot of danger.
But none of that mattered to me now.
I had my whole life ahead of me.