– EDRICK
Three days.
Three exhausting, miserable days of pretending I was fine. Three days of staying late at the office, drowning myself in work because the alternative was going home to a life that didn’t belong to me. Three days of dragging myself back to a mansion that felt wrong. Three days of missing a woman who deceived me.
Three days since the humiliation that shook my entire existence.
I hated it.
I hated how it felt.
I hated that Aria and Alina looked the same, and yet everything inside me reacted differently to them.
I hated that the woman carrying my child, my child, was not the one my heart kept reaching for like a damn fool.
And I hated Alina for that.
For the betrayal.
For the lies.
For making me feel this pathetic, this torn, this… broken.
I drove home long afte
