u don’t know how much she loves me. She’s like a dog—no matter how hard you try, she won’t leave. Why would she cheat?”
His words pierced me like a knife. I remembered the time he’d tried to break up with me. I had begged him to stay, foolishly believing my sincerity had won him over. I never realized that, in his eyes, I was nothing more than a pathetic stray clinging to him.
Evan vividly recounted that breakup, even mocking my desperate pleas back then, drawing laughter from Anne.
“Oh, Evan, wasn’t that around the time I came back to the country? Was the breakup because of me?”
Evan hesitated for a moment before quickly brushing it off and telling me not to overthink it.
“Back then, I was just being impulsive. I only love you now. Otherwise, why would I have married you?”
I shook my head with a bitter smile and hung up.
The nurse changing my dressing overheard most of the conversation. When she looked at me, there was a flicker of pity in her eyes. Her tone softened as she spoke.
“When’s the soonest I can have the procedure done?” I asked.
“The injury to your foot isn’t serious. You can do it as early as tomorrow.”
