Broken Strings

C H A P T E R E I G H T

"A sky full of stars and he was staring at her."

- atticus

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Andrew's face lit up in confusion. Why would he leave her? Where had she even heard that?

Was she planning on leaving him?

No, he wouldn't let her. She couldn't. She wouldn't. Not like this. They wouldn't end like this.

He wouldn't let her. He wouldn't.

Not without a decent attempt to try and save their marriage.

He had fucked up, majorly. But he never meant it to get this far, never this bad.

He never meant to hurt her like this. Nothing even close to this.

"We agreed to stay together for the kids, Anisha." His answer was curt and rude. But deep down, it wasn't the real answer.

The real answer was buried deep in his heart, somewhere between the walls of pain and betrayal. He wouldn't let go because he still wanted her. He still fucking loved her, a lot.

And it wouldn't end like this. It wouldn't.

More than once, he had tried to fix their broken bond, to approach her at least. But the fear of rejection pulled him back every time. And he had no idea as to how to fix them, to attempt to save the marriage he had spent years destroying.

He knew he didn't deserve a second chance. Hell, he knew she should've left him years ago.

But why didn't she?

They had both come to a mutual decision to stay together so the kids would at least have family, a stable household with both parents.

But still, she shouldn't have stuck around. Especially with all the pain he had given her, day after day.

It was hell to love someone like him. But Anisha did anyway. She fucking did. And in the end, she had destroyed herself while doing so.

But now as he stared at her pain-stricken face, he decided he would try. He would fucking try. Nothing would hold him back.

He would get back the woman he loved. He would fix the woman he had destroyed, the same woman who had saved him only in return to get herself broken.

In reality, she deserved someone far better than him. Someone who could love her the way she deserved to be loved, someone who wouldn't cheat on her at every chance, someone who would hold her and wipe her tears away instead of being the cause for her tears.

Someone like Sebastian.

But Andrew was selfish. Anisha was his and only his. He wouldn't let her go. Not like this.

He wanted to be the one to fix her.

After all, he had been the one to break her.

All because he had been stuck in the past for so long.

But that's the thing about getting stuck in the past, he didn't know how to move on, to a better future for him and his wife.

He had let the past ruin his future.

His eyes fixated on his wife, who looked like she was seconds from crying, barely holding herself together.

"Because we're really doing a good job showing the kids how love and how to be loyal to someone. Great fucking example."