way too much OW drama for me. Hero still not over ex, even after meeting & being attracted to heroine.
"Not all that long ago, I’d been picking out rings for Whitney. I thought perhaps marriage and spending a life content with her was in the cards for me. It was something I’d been looking forward to and excited about. But boy, had I been wrong about how that was going to turn out."
“Married? Oh hell no...”. “I just got out of a long-term relationship. We’d been together for almost a decade, and --”
“Jesus,” I said. “I thought I’d wasted a long time on Jeremy. What happened?”
He flinched. “I’d rather not talk about it, if that’s okay?”
My gaze fell on one from Whitney, and my heart stopped for a moment. My chest lurching as hard as my stomach just seeing her name in my inbox.
I hung up with my mom and debated looking at the e-mail from Whitney. We still kept in touch somewhat. Probably more than we should have, all things considered. She was still my friend, for better or worse – it was hard to drop an entire lifetime of friendship -- and I wanted to help her. Problem was, I wasn’t sure she wanted to help herself.
The e-mail from Whitney was still waiting for me when I woke up the next morning. I considered not opening it. I even thought about deleting it unread. But in the end, I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t just turn my back on her completely -- and mentally kicked my own ass for it.
And on and on it went. Later, this OW causes trouble. DNF at 10%