Till Death Us Do Part by Cristina Slough

Author:Cristina Slough [Slough, Cristina]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2015-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

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Mimi

Mimi woke to the hazy morning sunshine. She hadn’t slept very long, perhaps only three hours. She wondered how she’d fallen asleep at all.

For a moment, she lay still. Her stomach was in knots. As soon as she tried to remember why, it all came flooding back to her, making her heart drop. This is the news she had been dying to hear. She had prayed for it. She had willed it. But now, everything had changed. She no longer belonged to just him—at least her heart didn’t. She wanted to cry, but didn’t have the tears. Guilt caught in her throat and she couldn’t find the words to speak. When she got out of bed, the tension in her muscles sent tremors through her body.

There had been so many times when she had reached into the darkest depths of her mind and asked herself how Joel had been killed. Was it quick, or was it a slow painful death?

Her vivid dreams had shown Joel face down in dirt with blood pouring from an open wound. Whenever she reached for him, he had suddenly lifted his head, only when his face turned to her, it wasn’t Joel. It was a face she’d never seen before. Now, she had received confirmation that Joel was alive, but too many things had changed. She had discovered Joel was dishonest to her, she had slept with his estranged brother, and she had fallen in love with another man.

After the call the previous night, Austin had left the room.

He didn’t say anything. She stood, paralyzed by shock, and then she let out a cry that sounded inhuman. She threw herself onto the already creased duvet. She could smell Austin’s aftershave clinging onto the fabric, a stark reminder that she had already given half of her heart away and now the man she promised it to was coming back to her, expecting it to be untouched by another.

As she lay on the bed, staring into space, she felt the vibration of the phone persistently shaking. She fumbled around, looking for it. When she took it into her hand, she saw that she had seventeen missed calls from her parents and one text message.

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