Chapter 11

ALEX

I tried talking him out of not cancelling out on her. I stood by, infuriated when Derek told me to go buy jewellery to use as compensation for flaking out on her. I was well aware tonight was a big night for her and he had the audacity to skip out on her.

The black card, tossed to the side I didn't bother to do as he said. He may do a lot of things to people, but hurting her I failed to allow that to pass through. Maybe if I had told her all about his unfaithfulness all this could have been avoided.

What had stopped me I realize was that I somehow felt I may not be what she's looking for. I hadn't been blind to the looks we received from people when we were together, some people don't like the fundamental idea of seeing colours mixing.