Chapter 53

“You’re wrong,” he argued. “I’ve made plenty of commitments and if you’d just listen—”

She interrupted him. “No, Cedric. You avoid it, so you never have to bother.” She shook her head. “That’s not how I want to live my life.”

“Anna, don’t go.” Three words that sounded as though they’d been forced from his throat. It was too little, too late.

“Anna…”

“Goodbye, Cedric.” She told him, and walked away.

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Two days later, Cedric was still stunned.

No one had ever told him off the way Anna had. No one had ever been so right about him. He’d wanted to argue with her, to refute everything she’d said to him, but she’d pegged him perfectly.

It was a hell of a thing when you got a wake-up call from the woman you loved and she was telling you that you didn’t deserve her. Even worse, he thought, when she was right. Anna had made him take a good, hard look at himself and Cedric hadn’t liked what he’d seen. He’d wanted to go to her house t