Helen's POV
This was the third day since I had found my fiancé in bed with his secretary, he had been making frantic efforts to see me, all of which had been rebuffed by my friend Marie and my colleagues at work. Almost everybody in my life knew about Michael and how emotionally fragile I was, and so when the news broke about what he had done, everybody was committed to keeping him away from me, I could not even bear to hear his voice.
Marie had been my rock these days, she had moved most of her stuff to my house and was practically sleeping and waking with me, I could not go to work anymore, the stares and the whispers had been more than I could bear, I felt like I was the topic of the discussion every time I walked past a gathering of my colleagues, the sheer pity in their eyes nearly
