Remarried After I Secretly Divorced the CEO novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Costs
I walked out of the ballroom through the kitchen, past the caterers, into the service corridor.
Kieran found me by the freight elevator.
He stopped six feet away, which was the closest I would let him.
"Say the rest of it," I said.
"Ellery."
"You said you did. Say what that means, to me, with nobody on a stage."
He put one hand flat on the wall.
"For about an hour that morning, I wanted it to be over," he said.
"Not you. The waiting."
"I was thirty-one and I'd failed you every day for a year, and I knew it, and I couldn't fix it."
"I let that second feel like relief, and I'm telling you so it stops being a secret."
"Then I signed, and I hated myself so thoroughly I called it kindness."
"You could have told me," I said.
"Yes."
"You could have let me stand in that kitchen and be angry."
"Yes."
"I would have preferred it."
"I know that now."
The freight elevator hummed behind us, carrying someone's empty champagne crates.
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