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Mark’s eyes were all clouded in the dim light,
his voice was low and shaking.
“You…you did it on purpose? To get rid of all
of our memories?”
“Why?”
His voice rose, his fingers squeezing my wrist, begging for an answer.
“You’re asking me why, Mark?” I laughed, meeting his eyes, “Do you really not know? Or are you pretending you don’t?”
<
Mark took a step back, his face instantly
losing all color.
I stood up, walked over to the bed, and pulled
out a box, taking a notebook out.
“Every time you cheated on me, every time you were intimate with Amber, I wrote it all
down.”
I opened the notebook, the pages flipping in
the air.
“There are 50 entries here.‘
“Two years, and you were with her 50 times!”
<
I yanked open a drawer, threw the medicine
bottle on the ground, and the pills scattered
everywhere.
“The pills that I take aren’t vitamins, they are
for depression.”
While Mark was still stunned, I unbuttoned my shirt, to reveal the scar on my belly.
“You wanted to know what this was about, well today, you’ll learn the truth!”
I turned my head away, tears streaming down my face.
く
“Mark, we were supposed to have a baby, our
baby. But I got into a car accident, and the
baby didn’t make it.”
I pointed to the scar on my belly, my voice
filled with pain.
“This scar, it’s the only evidence that our
baby was ever here!”
“Bailey, why didn’t you tell me…
Mark’s eyes welled up with tears, full of pain
and guilt, his voice was shaking.
<
“Mark, I tried to tell you,” I responded coldly,
a bitter taste in my mouth.
“That day when I was in the car accident, I was bleeding so much, I barely managed to get to my phone. The first thing that I thought of, was to call you, not 911.‘
