Plenty of their mutual friends would see those pictures. If I was leaving, well, I wouldn’t let them have it easy either.

Before my flight took off, I sent Zelda a message.

[Happy birthday. Let’s never meet again.]

I didn’t say we were breaking up.

Because in our seven years together, she had never once introduced me as her boyfriend.

Getting cheated on was just what I deserved—blindly clinging to someone who never wanted me.

Right before I turned off my phone, an onslaught of calls came flooding in, and I accidentally answered one.