Chapter 3
Chapter 3
“Mr. Whitmore’s spending big bucks on Lila-everyone in the industry’s saying he’d rather have beauty than
business, haha!”
“Exactly!” Some pot-bellied guy raised his glass. “Lila, why don’t you join us in toasting Mr. Whitmore?”
I froze in the corner.
Jasper was allergic to alcohol-he never drank, not even at business dinners. I was always the one running interference, taking those drinks for him. But there he was with a wine glass in front of him while Lila pouted: “I don’t drink! My babe would never make me.”
“Right, babe?”
She wrapped herself around Jasper’s arm, and he actually picked up that glass, giving the man a cool look.
“Lila doesn’t drink.”
“But if we’re toasting, how about Mr. Carter and I have one instead?”
I watched Jasper down that entire glass while everyone cheered.
Lila blushed and gushed about what a hero he was, and Jasper just smiled indulgently and pinched her
cheek.
I felt like I was being sliced open with a rusty blade, watching myself become shredded while still clinging to the hope that maybe this was all some misunderstanding.
Emma grabbed my swaying body and was ready to storm in there and tear Jasper apart: “That son of a bitch!
I held her back and pulled out my phone to call Jasper,
I was still desperately hoping he’d give me some explanation, tell me there was more to the story. I watched him glance at his buzzing phone, then look at Lila with a complicated expression.
Without hesitation, she declined the call.
She clung to his arm again, reminding him: “You promised.”
“You said you’d have my back.”
I stubbornly kept calling back.
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His phone lit up and went dark, lit up and went dark, until finally Jasper made his choice.
“Yeah.”
“I promised.”
He flipped his phone face down, completely cutting off my calls. Lila beamed at him, and that smile became
the final straw that broke me.
I could barely stay on my feet, but I managed to pull together enough clarity to tell Emma: “Security
cameras.”
The cameras,” my voice was shaking as I pointed up at them. “Save the footage. I need evidence.”
I looked from the cameras to Jasper’s face, which was getting paler by the second, and told Emma: “If
asper’s made his choice, then I’m not going to make things easy for him.”
I got in Emma’s car and looked through all the evidence she’d gathered.
Photos of Jasper and Lila playing tourist together.
Lila’s Instagram was like this massive web, weaving together her and Jasper’s love story-a story that never
included me.
I saw a video from when I was on that business trip last month. Lila was sitting in my Tesla, recording
herself.
In the video, she was grinning: “OMG you guys, hubby’s car broke down so he got me a new ride! It’s pretty girly though, so I’m gonna surprise him with a little something special.”
She was recording custom GPS messages, then put her finger to her lips and winked at the camera.
“Wanna guess?”
Think my honey will like this surprise? Think he’ll buy me those cookies?”
Fighting back nausea, I kept scrolling and found photos from the day I was at the fertility clinic for IVF prep. Lila had been at the same women’s hospital, holding test results and looking all coy.
“Your girl’s missed her period for a month and a half!”
“Drop your guesses in the comments-is it just irregular cycles, or…” She giggled. “Am I about to become a monumy?”
“That fucking bitch!” Emma was pounding the steering wheel, but I’d moved past the initial rage and heartbreak into something colder.
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“Jasper has low sperm count,” I told her.
歸
aded Him to Plan Bankruntry
