Chapter 8
After returning to my own home, my phone kept buzzing with notifications.
I hadn’t intended to check them, but there were so many that I ended up opening it.
All the messages were from Zane.
I scrolled all the way to the top.
He had started by sending several group photos.
These photos were taken at the place he visited after his father passed away, at that same time.
The group photos featured both men and women, and in some, he wasn’t standing
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next to Celeste.
I couldn’t discern his intention until I opened the photos to see his accompanying
message.
“I wasn’t alone with Celeste; we were always separate, except when we unintentionally ended up in the same photo.”
He even sent a photo of himself lying in bed with a friend.
I laughed.
Was he trying to prove he didn’t sleep with Celeste?
I kept scrolling down.
There were more photos to show that he had no relationship with Celeste.
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Turns out he’s not clueless; he knows what makes a woman jealous.
He just didn’t want to bother comforting me before.
Now that we’re talking divorce, he’s suddenly interested in explaining.
More messages kept popping up, full of apologies and pleas for reconciliation.
I was annoyed and put his messages on do not disturb, and changed his contact name.
The next morning, just as I was lazily brushing my teeth, a knock on the door startled me awake.
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I opened the door to find Zane standing there.
He was holding a thermal food container.
Before I could say anything, he slipped in through the door.
Watching him enter, I rolled my eyes.
In the kitchen, he started unpacking the food from the container.
Fig bread, homemade hash browns, eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans in tomato sauce, and my favorite latte.
“I came to have breakfast with you, and then I’ll drive you to work.
“I made this all myself at home, give it a try.”
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He proudly pointed at the spread on the table.
I was about to decline when his phone rang.
He looked a bit impatient, but after a few rings, he picked up.
On the other end was Celeste’s anxious voice.
“Zane, my car broke down again, can you come pick me up?”
How could Celeste not tire of these tactics?
Yet, it’s these very tactics that lure Zane back time and again.
Sure enough, Zane looked at me with a troubled expression.
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I already knew his decision from his eyes.
In the past, I would have stubbornly asked him to choose.
But not anymore, because I no longer care.
After Zane hurriedly left my house, I dumped the breakfast into the trash.
I went out for breakfast and then headed to the hospital.
Passing by Zane’s office, he immediately came out upon seeing me.
“How was the breakfast?
“I looked up so many tutorials online to make it; I know you like a hearty breakfast.”
I ignored his chatter and walked past him.
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Seeing I wouldn’t engage, Zane’s face darkened.
He tried to follow, but I stopped and turned back to face him.
“Zane, it’s pointless.”
With a calm, steady voice, I continued:
“When I needed you, you were with Celeste.
“When my father passed away, you were with Celeste.
“When I was organizing the funeral all by myself, you were with Celeste.
“Even this morning, when you wanted to make peace, you left halfway to see Celeste.
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“Zane, since you were never there when I needed you, why not just disappear, so we can part ways peacefully?”
With those words, I quickly walked away.
Leaving him there, stunned.
Zane seemed frantic. In his mind, he never saw himself as at fault.
Even after I asked for a divorce, he still believed he loved me, and couldn’t understand why I wanted to leave.
I was bothered by his closeness to Celeste, but to him, there was no issue.
I couldn’t be bothered to argue with him
anymore.
You can’t wake someone who’s pretending to
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be asleep.
Zane wandered back to his office in a daze, while others in the department started gossiping about him.
“So, lost your wife?”
A female colleague, noticing our issues, teased him.
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