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No.
I would never do what Stefan did.
Fucking never.
Because all it shows is that he doesn’t trust me.
“So…you lied.”
Regret slides across his face, buries itself deep into his eyes. “I didn’t want to.”
He didn’t want to.
But he did anyway.
“I was supposed to be the most important person in your life,” I say. “Your partner. Your rock as much as you’re mine.” I thump my hand against my chest. “I was supposed to be your person—the one you can tell everything and anything to, and?—”
My heart squeezes hard.
And that, I think, is the worst part—aside from the fact that the man I love, the man I’ve never stopped loving has cancer, might die, that Rox might miss out on so much if that happens?—
My lungs hitch.
I slam my eyes shut, just breathe.
I think aside from him suffering alone, from being sick, the worst part of all of this is that he kept something this big, this important from me.
We’re supposed to be a team.
And…
He didn’t trust me enough to tell me.
My nails bite hard into my palms, and I know I’m breathing too fast. My head is spinning, my heart is hurting, my body feels like a fragile piece of plaster, one soft touch will break right through it.
Tiff saying she met him at a cancer support group.
Diane giving me looks I felt I should be able to interpret—when Stefan’s mother herself had fought her own cancer battle.
And Stefan?—
My beautiful, gorgeous man who’d promised to always be there for me, who told me I was brighter in his eyes than the very stars shining in the sky…
He’d left me.
I knew it was wrong, that it didn’t make sense, but I was too dumb to realize that the only reason he would have left was because of something he thought was so catastrophic, something that was so devastating that he wouldn’t be thinking straight…
Something that made him feel as though he had no choice but to leave.
Stubborn man.
Beautiful, stubborn man.
Who loves me and thought that the only way to protect me…
Was to leave me.
Not talk to me.
