Chapter 52: Nikki

I’ve been crying inside my room for well over an hour now. It started with anger and has now morphed into something I have not felt since my aunt came to me one fall afternoon to explain, that my life wouldn’t never be the same. I felt hopeless that day, I felt lonely and afraid and those emotions are mimicked this very moment, enhanced by the feeling of stupidity.

He has a fiancé. Someone he plans to someday marry.

And she’s stunningly beautiful.

A frustrated groan leaves my chest as I sit up and wipe at the stray tears that flow down my cheeks. I’ve been hidden up here in my room for over an hour. To say I was devastated to learn that not only was Bronson seeing someone else, but that he intends on marrying the woman, would be an understatement. It’s the woman from the charity event, the one woman that appeared on his phone.

How could I have been so stupid? Never once did I think he was engaged; never once did he mention her.

Broken. I feel completely broken.