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“People were after me Caleb. I was scared. I didn’t know what to do, I thought I was making the right decision.”
“For you.” I yell. “You should have told me Lucy. I was your husband. You destroyed me. Us.” I point between the two of us.
“Please Caleb, you don’t understand.”
“How much?”
“I was down $200,000.”
My hand smacks against my forehead as I exhale.
“My father sold his house last year and was able to pay the debt.”
I move away from her, needing some distance I take a seat on the couch.
“Why are you here?”
“I wanted you to know the truth. I left you so many messages with Ali, but I never heard back. When her phone disconnected, and I saw the news of her passing I knew I had to come back and tell you.”
My head snaps to her direction. My brows scrunch together as her words filter through my mind.
“What did you just say?”
“I left messages with Ali.”
“No. No you didn’t because Ali would have told me that you were still alive.”
She shakes her head and pulls out her phone. She presses play on the voice mail time stamped three years ago.
“Lucy, if you know what is good for you, you will stay away from Caleb. He has been through hell that you caused. I don’t want to ever see you around this town. If I do, there will be a new hell to pay. He will never know his junky ex-wife is alive.”
I clench and release my fist as I listen to Ali threaten Lucy. She had every right to be aggressive with Lucy.
“I was not aware that she knew. But she wasn’t wrong. You deserve to be hurt.”
She stands up and walks towards me. As a natural reaction my eyes go to her swinging hips. I sit further back on the couch. She crouches down in between my legs and places her palms on my knees. I can feel my whole-body tense up at the feeling of her warm hands.
“I have been in a lot of pain already. I lost two children Caleb. Our son before we got a chance to meet him and then I gave birth to our daughter Leela seven months after I left. She was beautiful.”
I didn’t know your heart could drop lower than your ass but mine does at the mere mention of another lost baby. I am not even sure if she is telling the truth, she has been lying this whole time, this could just be a ploy to get me back.
“What happened to her?” I swallow.
“She was stillborn at full term. They say it was probably the stress I was under, plus trying to get clean. I mourn our children every day. I am in pain every day. I go to counseling, I have been sober for three years now Caleb.”
“Is that all? Or was there anything else you needed to tell me?”
I need this conversation to be over. I feel many different emotions and I don’t know which one is going to come out. Lucy was the love of my life back then, but she died, but now she is here, and my heart is beating too fast to indicate if its mad or pissed at her, but my brain is mad at her for sure.
“I still love you, Caleb. I never stopped loving you.”
“You wanted out. You saw an opportunity and took it. You should have stayed dead.”
“Don’t say that.” She sucks in a breath as she cries, like I would feel sorry for her.
“I don’t know what you want me to say, I moved on.”
She grabs my knee harder, her eyes glare into mine as she bites her lip.
