Chapter 63

Andrew Blake

“Wait a fucking damn minute!” Jessenia said after a long silence of disbelief, “You want me to reasonably believe that you came all the way here, from New York to Chicago to apologize for what had happened over the years? At the time when your position is threatened and you know that my vote was going to ensure what you’re aiming to get.”

“I was, as much as I hated to admit it, abashed with what had happened. I thought we needed closure. Coming to Chicago was supposed to be the space to get what I believed I owed us. To say the least.”

I was honest though. Deep down, despite the fact that I had walked out on us that day at the altar, it did bother me to give us the closure we deserved. We had both made hasty decisions about our feelings, although, I knew that my plan never included getting married to Jessenia and I planned to call it off immediately after two years when the media barely looked into our lives, when I could have finally secured my