Shock overwhelms me. What am I seeing? Just this morning, he was declaring that he still loved me, and he wanted to fix things with me. Now I see him in bed with a woman who has threatened, hurt, and even tried to kill me.
Betrayal stabs at my gut. How can he do this to me with her?
If it had been any other woman, I don’t think I would feel this way. But Vanessa? It all hits so much harder.
“Lily.” Julian says. My name snaps me out of the state of shock I’m in and I shake my head a little. “This isn’t what it looks like.”
I snap. “How stupid do you think I am? What else could it possibly be?”
He climbs off of Vanessa as though putting distance between him and her now would somehow undo what I’ve just seen.
Vanessa’s hair is mussed, and her lips are swollen. Both of them are swe
