Had she planned to make me fall in love with her just to make the final blow hit harder? Was it a calculated choice to let me glimpse the perfect life we could have had, only to rip it away, making sure I realized exactly what I had lost? Did she know I was this close to admitting my feelings for her?
It was likely she did.
If these documents proved one thing, it was that Katherine was not the quiet, gentle woman I thought she was. Or, at least, she wasn't just that. She had a cunning, manipulative, cold-blooded side to her that she had weaponized to ruin me. I had seen a glimpse of it mere hours ago, while she stood, frozen and silent, on that lawn, watching me break down and beg on my knees without a single shred of pity. I had felt it when she left me in the dead of night, leaving ev
