Silence.
That silence should’ve told me everything.
“You don’t love me.”
No matter what I said, Tyler refused to change his mind.
When the divorce was finalized, I signed the papers with one hand while balancing Emma on my hip.
My lawyer avoided eye contact when he explained the child support calculations.
Two months later, Tyler and my cousin Gabriella, my father’s niece, announced their engagement.
They didn’t even have the decency to tell me privately.
Tyler and my cousin Gabriella announced their engagement.
They told me at my aunt Denise’s backyard barbecue.