Chapter 44-The End

Brandi

“Tes, let’s break up.” The words fall out of my mouth and hang in the air. For a minute, neither of us moves. My heart pounds as I await his answer, but I already know nothing he says will change the inevitable. Breaking up was always inevitable. A relationship between the two of us was doomed to fail from the start. I bite my lips, holding back the tears that threaten to fall when he finally speaks.

“What did you just say?” I can hear the confusion and pain in his voice.

“Let’s break up,” I repeat the lines I have practiced saying for the last two hours. I agreed to this. I have to do it for her, but it doesn’t lessen the pain.

“You’re joking. Fenice, you’re not serious.”

“I am,” I say, my words barely audible.

“Fenice. What is this about? I come home; you’re crying. You say there was never a child.”

“There wasn’t,” I whisper, my heart shattering again. I thought I would be pregnant soon. I was looking forward to being his wife and having a baby, but now. I sniffle as th