Chapter 13
Charlotte
The water was too hot, but I didn’t care. I didn’t feel the burn, how it scorched my skin. All I felt was this numbing ache inside my chest, like a disease that stemmed from Elijah’s lies. No matter how hard I tried to think of possible reasons he’d lie to me, none of them made it feel any better. It made me wonder what else he was lying about, causing me to dissect every word he had ever said. But everything just came down to this one monumental thing.
I loved him.
I loved him so much I married him on a whim, an impulse that convinced me that nothing would ever change the way I felt about him, which meant I might as well take the plunge and marry him, which I did. And now here I was, not even twenty-four hours later trying to keep my heart from bleeding out. My so
