“I surrender.”
Those two words shattered my whole world and pulled me into a dark pit, the anguish of a high-speed free-fall compressing my chest while my heart screamed for space to explode.
Why?
Why is this happening again?
I know what it takes to come out whole on the other side, and this time I just know I won’t be able to do it. Not again. Not with Matt.
The unstoppable sobs that shook my body, drained me of any will to get up. To fight. To react. The divorce papers still lying beside me, all pages bearing his signature, showing me that it was a done deal for him.
How much of last night, of the last year was actually true? Probably none of it. And I was nothing but a f*****g puppet, while Matt played my strings just as he wanted. How did I let myself get into this situation ag
