The Mask Is Off

I hid my clenched hands from view. What was Sarah trying to do? Taunt me? Did she think I’d be jealous to hear she and Kieran used to have sex? They had a freaking child together. Basic biology implied they must have been intimate. I wasn’t going to be jealous of that. She belonged to Kieran’s past. I was his present and future. Sarah waited and seemed disappointed that she failed to get a rise out of me. She took a sip of the coffee before continuing. ‘He promised he’d marry me. He probably gave me a ring. But I don’t remember that part.’ Her ring finger was bare. She looked at me. ‘But it sounds like something he would do, doesn’t it?’ I said nothing. ‘He’s the type who takes promises seriously, I can tell. Too bad I lost my memory. Then I wasted nine years of my life. Nine years that I could have spent with him, raising our child together. Men asked me out on dates. I was never interested. I didn’t know why, but it felt like I was waiting for someone, the right one. And none of them