Frank
I stormed through the woods with my fists clenched at my sides. My anger was already simmering just beneath the surface.
Katie.
That woman was the bane of my existence. Persistent, annoying, and completely delusional. She had this maddening way of acting as if everything between us was perfect, as if we were some happy couple living out a fairy tale.
How could she?
How could she lie to herself, and worse, to everyone else?
The memory of the nosy vendors at the market teasing Audrey about Katie’s so-called “relationship” with me resurfaced. My jaw tightened. I could still see Audrey’s tear-streaked face and hear her voice trembling with hurt as she threw accusations at me. Katie’s lies had caused that. Her insistence on clinging to the idea of us had hurt the one person I ca
