Chapter 4

The post updated again.

I tapped it open before I could stop myself.

“Actually, I've sent her disgusting gifts before. Indirectly, but still. Like that antique cross bracelet she's been wearing lately.”

“I was in a bad mood back then, and things between me and him got a little too wild. The condom broke inside me. He was okay with that. Later, he still gave her that bracelet and claimed he’d gotten it blessed at the Vatican.”

My eyes drifted on their own to the vanity.

That bracelet was Alexander’s Easter gift to me this year.

He told me he had stood in line for three days to have a bishop bless it for me.

“And last Thanksgiving, he took me back to his family’s old house in the countryside to meet his parents.”

“This little gold family locket on my wrist? His mother gave it to me.”

“He said he couldn't give me a marriage, but he would more than make up for it in every other way.”

Boom.

My mind went completely blank.

His mother's plain, honest face flashed before my eyes, along with the apologetic words she had said to me.

“We don't have anything of value to offer. This silver locket was passed down to me by his grandmother...”