Death Do Us Part

Synopsis

I screwed up and ordered a custom coffin using the joint account I still shared with my ex, Sebastian Gray. A second later, my phone was blaring the ringtone I had set just for him. Sebastian's voice, a low and lazy drawl, came through the phone. "Violet, all we did was break up. You don't have to plan my funeral already, do you?" he said. Our breakup was ugly. Sebastian had caught me red-handed, taking my clothes off for some other guy in my bed. He'd lost it and beaten the guy half to death. Blinded by tears, I slapped Sebastian again and again. When I didn't answer, Sebastian tried to play it cool, teasing me. "So what's the new plan?" he went on. "Since you can't marry me, you're settling for being buried with me instead?" Sebastian and I had known each other for twelve years, since we were kids. We'd been together for seven of them. He knew well that my only birthday wish, every single year, was to be his wife. The autumn wind bit at my skin as I stood frozen in front of the hospital, the medical report crinkling in my fist. Tears welled up, blurring the world around me. "Yeah, I am," I shot back. "You got a problem with that?" The line went dead silent. Just as I thought he'd hung up, his voice came back, stripped of all its earlier warmth. "Violet," he said, "I've decided to be with Evelyn. "You know how I am. I can only love one person at a time."