Chapter Thirty Five

With sluggishness and weariness, Stacy made her way into her house and slumped into one of the chairs in the living room instantly. Her mind felt clouded with so many laborious thoughts which were swimming in a hazy fog, as she let out a weary sigh that had accumulated the weight of her exhaustion.

'No matter how hard she tried to act that all was fine, she just couldn't be! Reckoning with herself was the hardest thing to do.'

For so long she had thought of herself as not worth anything good and had her self-esteem extremely sunken below ground level, while thinking that she was not good enough and could never be good enough. However, with everything Carlton had told and explained to her over and over again, she didn't know what to believe anymore.

When she finally confronted him about the night she saw him and Marilyn together, he blinked rapidly in shock that clouded his mind. He had never thought that there was a possibility of her attending the banquet that night. Or the clos