Chapter 78

"I got pregnant. He refused to take responsibility for it. He broke up with me and took off. I had to leave school. I had to relocate to stay with distant relatives down south. It was a bad time for me. I struggled. It was really hard. I tried to reach you, you were unreachable. You cut me off. Our connection didn't mean anything to you."

"Sheryl, listen to yourself for Christ's sake. Did our connection mean anything to you when you were fucking my friend? Or allowing him get into your head after all my repeated attempts at reassuring you? Did our connection mean shit to you? Because you saw me carrying on with my life, you believed I wasn't affected.

But I was. I sunk deep. It was terrible. I would have drunk myself to death if not for Chris." I snap, I don't want to get angry, but I am edging towards it. She is still as unreasonable as she was back then. I can't believe she is trying to blame me for how her life turned out.

"Our relationship wasn't healthy and it affect