Chapter 55

2009

Jacob.

New job. New behavior. New life. I was now just an option.

The disappearing acts became frequent. I did not know where he was going.

All that he told me was that he was going to purchase a loaf of bread on a Friday afternoon and would be gone for the entire night with my second sister's husband.

It's funny how the story comes out of where they had gone, months and years later.

I asked him about it and he denied every word.

Saying it was just a bunch of lies. He had never been to teasers that night, he had never gone to Chatsworth that night. It had become a sequence of excuses and lies. The truth stared me in the face and I chose to believe the lies. My heart never wanted to feel the pain. It was easier that way, to believe his lies and block out the hard truth.

Now when I look back, the red flags were there. I ignored it. I was stupid. I chose to love. I still choose to love. I chose to make it work.

He would always say that no one wants to see us happy together. Th