Then tell me how you woke up naked Ty? Do you expect me to believe this? I could tell she was already pissed at me. I sounded like a fool trying to convince her I was a victim. She would never believe me.
She drugged me, Van. The last thing I remember was feeling dizzy and waking up somewhere else. I swear I am telling you the truth. You can ask Conner. He helped me that night and convinced me to never talk about it again. I’ve been living with the guilt for months and it was killing me inside. So yesterday, I drove to Heather’s to make one last plea for the paternity papers. When I rejected her for the second time and she admitted to drugging me, I lost it. I went off on her. I walked out of there and hoped her house would blow up with her in it. That’s the fucking truth.
So you went home and told your wife the truth? Is that why she left?
No, I went home and decided I could never hurt her like that. I never would have cheated, and I never will. She’s my life and I don’t want to live without her, not for a second. My eyes started to burn as I looked over at the pictures that remained in my living room. Heather must have been pissed. She must have come to the house sometime this morning to confront Miranda.
Oh my God! She told her in person?
More like showed her. She took all of these pictures of the two of us. I don’t remember doing any of it, you have to listen to me. I’m telling you the truth. I love my girls so much. I’d never do anything to lose them.
Please don’t cry, Ty. It makes it hard for me to be angry with you, when I hear you in so much pain.
She won’t return my calls. I went to school to get Iz and she was gone. Miranda took all of their clothes. She isn’t coming back. I lost them, Van. Please tell me what to do. How am I supposed to live without them? I can’t do this, not for even one day. I’m so fucking lost right now. I need to hear her voice. I need to see her beautiful face and hold her in my arms.
Is Conner with you?
He went out. He said he had some crazy ass plan to help me, whatever that means. My crying was more apparent considering I could barely get my words out.
When Miranda get’s here I will keep her safe and calm her down. I can’t promise that I can get her to talk to you Ty. You know how she feels about cheating. It’s going to take her a while before she can deal with it.
She’s never going to forgive me. I deserve all of this, for cheating on you, and for lying to my wife. I made my life this way. I never should a have let myself feel so happy. Nothing lasts forever.
Miranda loves you, Ty. No matter how angry and hurt she is, I know she loves you. Listen, I will text you and let you know she’s here safe. If she say’s it’s okay, I will have Bella call you. I can’t promise she will be reasonable, but I will try my best.
Does this mean you believe me?
Heather is an ignorant bitch who has only wanted one guy since high school. I think she’s capable of doing everything you said. As far as the cheating, well, I know you never got bent out of shape like you are now over me and I know how much you obsess over your wife. There’s no way I could believe that you would be willing to lose that.
I just lost it. Of all the people in the world, Van was the last person that I ever thought would be on my side. She’d forgiven me and I needed that so much. I wasn’t that person anymore and I needed my wife to know that. I wasn’t going to give up. I couldn’t.
Thank you, Van. It means so much right now.
I’ll call you soon. Please stay home tonight. Don’t do anything stupid. We love you, Ty.
Love you guys too.
I hung up the phone and tried Miranda one more time, hoping to just hear her voice.
Chapter 19
Miranda
Why is it that when your life is at a breaking point, every freaking song on the radio relates to it. If I heard one more sad song, I was going to rip the radio out of the dash and toss it out on the road.
After Bella’s million questions about her father, I ended up turning off my phone. I didn’t want her to hear it ringing and know that I had lied to her. It was bad enough that she was going to hate me for taking her away from her father. It broke my heart for her. Ty may have been a cheater, but he was a good father.
I wanted to hate him, but doing that made me hurt more. I couldn’t stop thinking about all of those moments where his love overpowered mine. He’d fought so hard to prove to me, without a doubt, that he wasn’t the same person he used to be. I trusted him so much and yet he’d done exactly what he said he wouldn’t do. How could he go through with that, knowing I was at home waiting for him? He was out fucking the town whore, while I sat at our house, barefoot and pregnant.
Cliché!