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It was a live or die round or stay down and let this end you event Walk away and leave him behind, or stay and let this kill you, kill yourself just to see if he'll bleed out with you

I always thought I was too strong to be broken by anything I always told es you No er No matter hoeak you are, it makes you weaker Noyou to your knees

A part of me held onto a small bit of denial For days I held onto it I couldn't get out of bed, but I held on It couldn't be real

It had been Dante's voice, but it hadn't been him An iht

I was holding onto that delusion for dear life when I started receiving the texts One after another The first was only words, short and to the point

This is Tiffany Dante and I are getting ht you should know before it's announced publicly He would like Gra at that bit of evil when the next ht you should see these Enjoy

What folloas a furious flow of picture texts, one after the other, all showing roughly the sa

Him with her

My God Her? Tiffany?

Turns out it was right there in our foundation all along--the thing that would break us Her?

The intimacy of it is what killed uably Irrevocably Every part of hied to irl's hand, and there he was, in picture after picture

Sprawled on his back, being straddled, hands on her slender, naked hips

That's what felt like the biggest betrayal, that he'd hidden it so thoroughly from me, this other side of hi but a lie

And just like that, the delusions, the denial, were gone

I won't deny it Those pictures brokeprecious inside of me, and left a hollow shell behind

I did sos Because I was lost, broken, and afraid

Nate was just too easy of a mark Too convenient Too perfect for e

He came to me, flew all the way out to LA just to comfort o through thereassurances

I let him think he seduced me I let him think that I wanted him back, as much as he wanted , that anything he said or did or felt got through to h

I let him think that I loved him I let him think that I would marry hieful one

Nate was in the shohen I intercepted a call for hi particularly hateful when I answered it with a purring, "Hello, Dante"