Total pages in book: 196
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
That was all the support I needed, all I always ever needed, and I was immensely grateful that I hadn’t lost it, that this amazing woman next to me had a heart big enough to let me back in. My thoughts added fire to my fingers, and I started writing without a second thought.
“Five and a half years ago, Elena and I were talking about starting a family. We planned to take a break from the spotlight and buy a quaint little house somewhere which was always her dream. We were excited to start a family of our own and embark on a new chapter in life.”
I looked over at her to make sure she was okay before continuing on. “I made the mistake of sharing this information with people I thought were on my side, people I believed wanted only what was best for me. That’s my manager Scott and my spiritual advisor Matt. In my excitement, I missed the signs that they weren’t as excited about this news as I was.”
“I was so caught up in the idea of what the future, my future with Elena, would look like that I didn’t pay attention to what else was going on around me. So, unbeknownst to me, while we were making these plans for our lives, those same people joined hands with Mary Hudson to destroy them and us.”
“Mary Hudson joined hands with Janie Stevens, who was a member of her church, someone she knew had a sick fixation on me and my life and set about destroying it. Janie was someone I knew from the time she was a fan back in the day. I didn’t know then that it was all a setup, that her dad and Mary had conspired to get us together even then.”
“I never saw her as anything more than a devoted fan, and yes, during one of my and Elena’s breaks a long time ago, I did hook up with Janie, but that was all it was for me, a hookup. As all of you know, Elena and I used to break up and get back together a lot when we first started dating. That was mostly due to our differences and the fact that her family and friends wanted better for her.”
“I can accept now that I wasn’t always what was best for Elena, but there was never a time that she wasn’t my everything, even when we were on a break from each other. Anyway, I did hook up with Janie back then in one of my drunken, drugged-out phases, but she was never any different from any of the other females I hooked up with while Elena and I were on a break from each other.”
“But for her, it was more, I guess. Her dad and Mary knew this, and they used it when they saw an opening. Matt and Scott worked behind the scenes to get us together, both for monetary reasons, I guess. As for Mary, I still have no real idea what her part in it was, other than she never liked Elena ever since she turned down her offer of becoming her manager.”
Elena tensed up beside me, but I kept going. I might as well since I’d come this far. “To make this happen, they fabricated a story. First, Mary got her daughters to take Elena out of the country while Scott used the excuse of me needing to work to get me to stay back here.”
“While she was away, they convinced me that Elena was pregnant with my child and got rid of it while away; not only that, they claimed that she had an affair with someone they knew I was jealous of. To make me believe this, they used her friend and confidante Rachel to make it seem more plausible, and I fell for it.”
“I went on a drug binge, and during that time, they had Janie Stevens waiting in the wings to carry out the rest of their sick plan. Matt spent the days after revealing the news of my dead child pushing the idea of me marrying Janie and how much better she was for me, and in that state of pain and drug-induced rage, I went along with it. Why wouldn’t I, I trusted this guy with my soul, so I believed he had my best interest at heart.”
“So even though I didn’t love her or even like her that much, it seemed like a good idea. And the rest, you know. I had a rushed wedding and spent the next five years in a drug-induced haze filled with hate and anger toward Elena because I believed in that one lie. And no, none of it was true. There was no baby and no affair.”
“When did you realize that it was all a lie,” Themis asked the question, and I realized that no one else was speaking even though there were now hundreds of thousands of people in the comment section.