The image of him being happy and loving with my best friend felt like betrayal. It felt like he had launched a knife into my heart while I was struggling to breathe. 
How could he betray me this way? How could he betray me with my best friend? "
You said you loved me." I cried out and brushed the tears running down my face away. 
He stared at me, and the coldness in his eyes mirrored the one his mother always had for me. "That was my greatest mistake." I felt cold. 
Once Imela believed love was enough, now not anymore. Love was just another lie that the weak believed in to keep them from seeing the truth: that there was no place for people like them in this world.

The Betrayed Ex-wife's Revenge

　　Decision on what to wear tonight. Things like this were my kryptonite; it was easy to dress up for work and dates, but anything that differed from these two always had me wanting to pull my hair out. It could be that I didn't want to dress too formally, but I didn't want to stand out while there.


　　Though I had known about it a month prior, I didn't prepare for it.


　　"Do you think she would be there?" Vivian asked over the phone as I pulled out the clothes I finally decided to wear.


　　A grey long sleeve, black suit and plain trousers. Unlike last year, there was no colour code.


　　I buttoned up my white shirt and adjusted its collar. "I do not know, and I do not care at this point," I answered.


　　It was Robb and Ivory's thirty-first anniversary, and it was the first formal outing I was going on without Cecil by my side. 


Chapter 44: The old and the new