I didn’t know what to say.
She gave a short, bitter laugh.
“I kept waiting to discover what he’d done. I wanted to find a message on his phone. I wanted to find out there was another woman. I wanted him to be a terrible person.”
“Why?”
“Because then it would make sense.”
The light turned green, but I didn’t move until the driver behind me tapped his horn.
I drove on.
Kayla wiped at the corner of her eye.
“If he’d cheated, I could have hated him. If he’d lied, I could have blamed him. But he didn’t give me anything like that. He just stopped choosing me.”
My throat tightened.
“And you thought if Andrew could be tempted…”
“Then Eric wasn’t special,” she finished quietly. “Then maybe all men were like that. Maybe relationships were just a game, and the only mistake I’d made was believing I was different.”
