M A L L O R Y He did it many times, but I will carry the pain and betrayal for the rest of my life, till the end of my last breath. Trust your girl’s instinct. For the nine years we were together, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Moore was everything to me—literally everything—and I detested the fact that I let him take up so much space in my life that I lost any feeling of ‘self-love’ and ‘self-worth’ for myself. When I was twenty-five years old and just started my career as an editor at ALX Publishing House, he was a year older than me and had a very steady position as a supervisor at a bank at the age of twenty-six. He was persuading me, after my coworker introduced us together on a casual night out, and although I was not immediately drawn to him, there was something about him that attracted my int

