“Good thing I am here. Otherwise, how much longer would you have kept lying to me?” I said, smiling bitterly.
With a shrug, she dropped all pretense. Still holding onto the man’s arm, she stepped closer, right in front of me. “Well, I guess now you know. Now I don’t have to keep tiptoeing around anymore.”
I could barely get the words out, my heart aching so much I could hardly breathe. “Why would you betray me?” My eyes were blurred with tears.
She glanced at me with disdain. “Because you’re broke, Brian. I don’t see any future with you.”
I’d been poor for as long as she’d known me, so why accept my love in the first place if that was a problem?
If she’d turned me down at the start, at least it wouldn’t hurt this much now.
I pointed to the man standing next to her. “And…being with him gives you a future?”
At that, her eyes lit up. “Of course! Charles here is the real deal – he’s got a huge trust fund, and his family owns, like, a massive cattle ranch. I’d be crazy to stay with you!”
She even blushed, looking at him like he was her entire world, a look I’d never seen her give me.
So, she really did love him.
But I recognized the guy; I’d seen him at a job fair before.