Xavier P.O.V
I don't think I have ever genuinely felt anything for anyone in a while, probably because I built my life on the avoidance of attachment. I still remember the day that I told Denise I was done; it was written across her face-she never saw this coming. I know she really thought my money would keep me in her life, that I'd never walk away. But all the same, I just could not stay with anyone who cared for only a life that I could provide.
The reason Bruce was furious when I told her it was over-what Denise was to him: perfection. Just the kind of woman everybody wants by their side-beautiful, glamorous, surrounded by attention. To me, however, it counts for nothing if something real is not beneath it. Denise never really cared for me, not about me. She was more into the latest
