RUBBY'S POV
It was painful watching Alex say those hurtful words to his mom. Yet, I understood him. Who keeps such a secret away from their son? And to think that he had gotten a wind of it from the media made it worse.
His outburst was justified, and so was his mother's reason.
Then I thought, what if it was the same kind of heart break I had encountered? What if the man had slept with her best friend, and she chose not to forgive him?
I shook my head as though it would shake off the thought that had suddenly enveloped it.
I had seen that man a hundred times. He was always around the premises, even when I still dated Nolan. Now it made more sense to me how I kept bumping into him every time. I was running away from either Alex or that squirrel.
"What if he is no longer there?" Ale
