Chapter 29. Surprise

Reese

It was much like the good old days when Liza gave me permission to stay in her house. When we were still in college, we used to be roommates. However, this new house that she has purchased has three rooms, and she allowed me to occupy the empty room that was adjacent to hers. She said her stepbrother had given her this house as a gift on her 26th birthday.

Liza owned a bar and restaurant, so she was the boss herself of her own business. It had been her dream since then because she enjoyed drinking and going to parties. She left a while ago and told me to look for something to eat for dinner in the fridge.

As I arranged my belongings in the empty closet, I could still hear her voice in my head.

“I never really liked Troy…” she said after I told her everything that happened. She told me before that marrying him was a mistake. She’d seen something in him. Some indications that he never really loved me. But I didn’t listen to her. I listened to what