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Chapters (87)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. START READING
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  75. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  76. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  77. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  85. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  86. EPILOGUE
  87. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Next, I upload Carrie’s ready-to-take-flight photo and start tagging all of our mutual SkyAero friends. There’s a pretty good list of them, because the boss with the biggest office gathered his leadership team together and told them they needed to engage with our team more. He said Facebook would be a good idea. Up until now I had to scroll through my news feed to endure photo after photo of food, braggarts, and their trips to Morocco, kids that are cute only to their parents. I gave out likes like confetti in a parade because my boss’s boss said social media makes people more connected.

Now I’m giving them something they’ll never forget.

The last person I tag is Carrie. She’s about to go viral, which is a pretty good trick for someone I now consider toxic like a disease.

With almost a flourish, I post it. It feels good. Better than sex with her, that’s for sure. I sit back and drink some more and watch the fireworks.

Payback is a bitch, bitch, I think.

I hear Aubrey calling for me. I set down my drink. I bet my phone will start ringing any minute.

Holy shit, I’ll say. I knew I’d been hacked. I’m going to contact Facebook now. Carrie LaCroix? Naked? Wow, that’s embarrassing. Thanks so much. Jesus, seems like everyone is a victim of something these days.

Aubrey asks for some water, and I bring it to her. I can hear the buzzing of my phone all the way in her room. I have been through the wringer since Sophie died. Hell, I’ve been to hell and back. This bit of revenge isn’t really like me. And yet for some reason, I did save the photo. So I guess that leaves me to wonder: Is it like me after all?

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

ADAM

The next day, Aubrey and Katrina are at Woodland Park looking at the baby goats and lambs in the children’s zoo while I sift through more of Sophie’s things in her dresser drawers and ponder what life will be like without her. Even though I knew about her affair and, yes, hated her for it, I still had a love for her. Sometimes hurt so deep gets buried by hope. I thought, Sure, we can do this. We can make this work. I don’t want to know who he is or why you thought he was your soul mate. We all do crazy. I did Carrie LaCroix.

I find the gold-and-sapphire bracelet that I gave her for our first anniversary. She used to wear it all the time on that slender, beautiful wrist of hers. She acted like we couldn’t afford such extravagance when I gave it to her, but I dismissed that out of hand.

“I’m on the way up,” I told her. “In line for a big promotion.”