I learned the hard way that people are not always who they claim to be. I have learned to read between the lines and to pay attention to things that weren’t said.
Thanks to life, I always trust my gut when something seems off. Lately, James had been acting out of character and it had set off every alarm in my instincts.
James had once been my reason to live and fight through life’s toughest moments and now he was becoming a stranger right before my eyes. And now, Beatrice is in the picture, things weren’t adding up.
I gazed out the office window, watching the city lights shimmer in the twilight sky. My thoughts were a whirlpool of questions without answers. What was James up to with Beatrice? Why did he deceive me? And why did I feel that I was standing on the brink of a cliff, waiting
