96. Pretense

ALICE

It would be an understatement to simply say that I was hurt.

I wasn't just hurt and heartbroken, I also felt like my entire life has been a lie because the people that I cared about the most didn't seem to care about me just as much as I cared about them and they were capable of doing something so horrible to me without even showing any sort of remorse.

The fact that one of the people that hurt me was my sister and the other my husband made everything even more complicated for me because they were the last people that I would have thought would do something like this to me and I sometimes you can't believe that they're hurting me like this and making me feel like a complete idiot.

I've had to pretend like I was okay and act like everything was perfectly fine with me even when my entire world was pitch black and I felt very lost and confused.

I didn't plan on pretending to lose my memory initially but when I woke up and saw my parents and Alejandro standing side-by-side, it j