“You should be happy. You miserable bitch.” Her own mind taunted. “What are you still scared he doesn’t love you? Does it matter? He’s being a good father to the kids and that’s all that should matter. Are you really going to be selfish and deprive them of that?”
Emerald looked at herself and saw it all. Every flaw, every imperfection, and they screamed at her as they said the truth. “You were never loved anyway. You were told you were and you fell for it like an i***t. Look at you. Disgusting. Your hair is greasy, your stomach is falling over your jeans, and your t**s are to your toes and you’re not even thirty one yet. Pathetic.”
On the ground without even realizing it, Jean-Luc was there with a hand over her chest and the other over her eyes. Everything quiet and still Emerald was s
