LILY
I stared at my phone like I couldn't believe what just occurred, what I'd just done. I curled into a fetal position, my eyes stinging as tears pooled in my eyes and rolled down to the side of my hairline. I squeezed my eyes shut, chanting a mantra in my head as I refused to waste my tears on Calvin. All these years that I'd wasted my tears on him were more than enough. I'm a grown-ass woman now and crying because of him is not something I will ever allow myself to do again.
I can't believe I fooled myself into thinking he had changed, into thinking that maybe there might be more to him than being a bully. I should have known better, I should have been more careful because a leopard could never change its spot.
Unconsciously, my mind drifted back to the day my sister had told me his true plans for me, and her words played over and over again in my mind like a constant loop.
