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I wish it could be any other way. I’m not sure anything has ever hurt so much. It’s like a weight is crushing down on my chest, making it hard to breathe.
I take in a shuddery breath, willing myself to hold it together until I can get out of here and far away from him to think. I screw my eyes shut, tears pricking at their corners.
“I guess it’s in your blood. Being a liar… a cheat.”
I open my eyes in time to see Drew blink away the tears in his lower lids.
“If that’s what you want to think, Soph, then I guess it is.”
I choke back a sob as he looks at me with nothing but soul-wrenching loss in his eyes.
Then he whispers loud enough that only I can hear, “I’m sorry, Mama. You deserve so much better.”
I sniff, forcing back my tears.
“You’re right.” My voice shakes as I stand from my chair and place my hand over my stomach. Drew’s gaze follows it, and he makes a garbled sound in the back of his throat, likea wounded animal. “Wedo deserve better,” I say, taking in a deep breath. “We all do.”
I resist the compelling urge to reach out and touch him. To comfort him, the way he has done for me when I’ve needed it.
Because how can I?
Not now.
Not after everything.
“Drew, how could you?” Maddy says in disgust.
He hangs his head in shame, making no attempt to get up from the floor as I step around him.
Violet meets my eyes, and she looks like she’s about to cry.
“I need to go,” I say around the giant sob growing in the back of my throat.
I ignore the gloating look on Henry’s face as Violet nods kindly and steps forward, placing a hand on my upper back and rubbing it.
I move with her, out into the hallway, unable to look back. I’m not strong enough to witness the man I love breaking. Because despite what he’s just said, I can’t handle seeing him in pain.
“I’ll drive you where you want to go, Sophie,” Violet says softly.
I don’t argue as I walk on shaking legs out of the house with her.
Leaving Drew behind.
Chapter 36
Drew
“Have you at leastcalled her? Begged for forgiveness?” Maddy stomps back and forth across the carpet in front of my desk.
I lean back in my chair and allow my eyes to wander, staring out of the window at London sprawled out into the distance. I can see the roof of the hotel Tanner and I did a refurbishment in. The one where Logan had his launch party months ago.
The one where I saw Sophie again for the first time in years.
I’ve stared at the fucking thing every day since she left one week ago. The reminder is like a knife against my throat. I wish someone would press it in deeper, slice open the artery and let me bleed out.
Something.
Anything.
