Fire and Beauty (The Vampires of Shadow Hills Book 3) by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2018-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Julie Sharpe was tired, yet she couldn't sleep. She was crying, thinking about Rob. Not that she missed him since before they got divorced he was never home much. But she cried because of the betrayal she had suffered. To think that on all those nights when she had believed he was at the office instead of at their home, that they were taking advantage of his goodwill, and that he was working hard to take care of her, to think that all that time, he had been lying to her. He hadn't been at the office, no; instead, he had been with her. Laura. Not only was she a colleague of Julie's, but she was also her best friend.

Her best friend!

To think that it had taken Julie two years to figure out what they were up to, what they were doing behind her and Laura's husband, Tommy's backs. And she had absolutely no idea. She hadn't noticed that he smelled different. She hadn't found it strange that he no longer wanted to sleep with her since that had already stopped once she realized she couldn't have any children and she had started to loathe her body for its incapability. And she figured he too had lost interest because of all the extra weight she was gaining. But she should have seen it, shouldn't she?

Every day, Julie saw Laura at the school. They even ate together in the teachers’ lunchroom almost every day. And she never suspected a thing.

It wasn't until the day after Valentine's Day when Laura came to work wearing a diamond bracelet, the same one Julie had wished for, but she had gotten earrings instead, which she loved, but it was the bracelet she really wanted.

"I love that bracelet," Julie had said.

"Isn't it gorgeous?" Laura said. "Tommy gave it to me. For Valentine's Day."

That was when Julie knew something was wrong. Tommy never gave Laura presents and he couldn't afford a bracelet like that one. And what was even stranger was that it perfectly matched Julie's earrings. So much she was certain it was a set, the set she had seen in the store where she had shown them to Rob.

At first, she had pushed the thought away, thinking it had to be some coincidence or maybe even that Rob helped Tommy buy the jewelry and decided he liked the earrings best. Yet something had started to nag at Julie and one day when he was late again, she had logged into his Facebook account and found out she was right. Never in her life had she wished she was wrong like in that moment. Julie's entire world crashed and hadn't been the same since. The many messages had been graphic and a lot about sex, but what had hurt her the most, the most painful ones, were those with declarations of love and yearning. Julie had read as many as she could without breaking down. She had then walked away from the computer, sat down on her couch, and cried.

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