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

　　There was someone in Ela's life that made her happy, and it wasn't me. That felt wrong.


　　Panic flickered in her eyes as I asked that question, and she shook her head.


　　I frowned at her, not appreciating her lying tactics, especially when she was a terrible liar. "What do you know, Cecil?"


　　She shook her head. "I am sorry. I disagreed with her about it, so I decided to stay out of it."


　　I stepped over to her and took her by the wrist, making her look into my eyes in panic. "Stay out of what? Do you know where Ela is?" I demanded.


　　She nodded weakly. "I didn't think she would. It was foolish even to think." She rambled on, but I wasn't interested in anything else she had to say.


　　"Where is she? Speak goddamn it!" I snapped, grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her violently.


　　She looked terrified, and I didn't know if it was of me or of the truth she knew.


　　"She is with your brother." She answered and covered her mouth in remorse.


Chapter 35: Genesis of a broken heart