Chapter 3

He would never understand. Broken is broken. And some things, once dead, stay buried. It didn't take a massive betrayal to kill a woman's love.

All it took was treating what she treasured most like total garbage. I clenched the torn piece of screen and slipped it into my pocket.

"Don't bother," I said. Because he could never afford it.

Leon didn't notice any change in me. He was still busy, still confident, and still trying to have his cake and eat it too, playing his clever little game with both Ava and me, until the company's annual party arrived.