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So much blood.

I didn't expect to hurt him like that.

I didn't expect him to fall.

I could still hear the sound of his body hitting the floor.

But I couldn’t go to jail. My babies needed me. The police would've never believed it was an accident.

An angry wife.

Adeadhusband.

Another woman.

No one would've believed me.

But it was an accident.

I didn't mean to do it.

I love my husband.

Istilllove my husband.

And now all I can think about is him bleeding out on the floor while asking me to help him.

This was allherfault.

All of it.

Sleeping with married men.

If Gianna would've just left my family alone…

Bishop would still be alive.

Chapter 51

It felt like all the life drained out of me.

I was just—stuck. Suspended in this state of disbelief, unable to grasp the fact that she would do me like that. After everything…

I get she wanted to protect me, but she had to have known that doing this to me would hurt worse than any physical pain ever would. I felt like I was bleeding internally.

My heart…my heartliterallyhurt.

I couldn't work. I let my managers take over. Let them know I needed a few days because I didn’t have it in me to pretend. Not this time. I just wanted to talk to her. Get her to see reason and understand that I loved her too much to let her go that easily.

But blocking me was so fucking final.

Shereallywas done.

She didn't love me.

She didn't love my son either if she could let us love her this much and then take it away.

I never imagined Gianna would be cruel, but I guess I didn't know her at all. She got what she needed and left.