With trembling fingers, she took off her diamond and platinum engagement ring, placing it on the table.
He recoiled as if she’d slapped him.
‘Keep it.’ The raw torment in his voice mirrored the spear of agony in her chest.
But she merely shook her head and on shaky legs moved past him.
‘What about the house?’ he asked.
The construction crew had just broken ground on their new family home, but she couldn’t think of it.
Truly, she was in the middle of a waking nightmare, had been for ten hellish days, reliving over and over again the exact moment when her whole world had collapsed.
Don’t think about it, not now.
‘It’s yours,’ she whispered. ‘It’s the least I can do.’
‘Just like that? That is it? No discussion?’
Rage replaced pain in those dark eyes and Jacob’s fury lanced a heart already in pieces.
Gabriella knew that if she didn’t get out now, she never would. The only thing keeping her together was the unbearable knowledge of what their future held. And she drew strength from that.
She picked up her coat, her purse, and moved towards the door.
‘Stop!’
With her hand on the handle she paused, the pleading in his tone almost broke her.
She could not bear to look at him.
‘I want the truth, Gabriella. Is there someone else?’
For a second she stiffened, blinking with shock, then realised he’d thrown her a lifeline. What difference would one more lie make? And there would be no going back now. Because she knew Jacob would never, ever, forgive betrayal.
Her conscience was screaming now, asking what the hell she was doing?
He would be there for her in sickness and in health. But that was the whole point, wasn’t it? Thank God, she’d found out before they’d taken their vows. He deserved to be happy. Deserved to have a future, to have all the things he dreamed of, things she couldn’t give him.
‘Something like that.’
The shocked gasp had her open the door.
‘Damn you, Gabriella. God damn you straight to hell,’ he said through clenched teeth as his voice finally cracked.
Hot tears blinded her.
‘I’m already there, my darling,’ she said so softly he could never hear her.
With a shaky breath Gabriella Dolman straightened her spine and stepped through the door to an uncertain future.
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