CHAPTER THIRTY ONE – TRIP TO HAWAII

She couldn't breathe. Couldn't process the absolute MIND-FUCK of him flipping the script so completely, making HER out to be the crazy, unhinged ex while he and Emma played the cosmic soulmate victims! No...nonono, that couldn't be! Not after everything he'd put her through, all the cruel manipulation and empty promises! He was the delusional one, trapped in some psychotic spiral by that evil blonde's siren spell! But try as she might to protest, to defend her reality from his twisted revisions, Charlotte's words died on her lips. In one masterful sleight of hand, Alexander had reframed the entire narrative until she barely recognized the battlefield they were warring across anymore. With leaden numbness spreading through her veins, Charlotte tapped out one last message, desperate for him to see some glimmer of the man she'd loved amid this monstrous charade: You're right...I still can't understand how the person I loved could become someone this cruel and dishonest. You're like a