Chapter 9

Even though Silas and I were divorced, we still shared a lot of the same friends. So, there were definitely some social events where running into each other was bound to happen. A week after I showed Whitney the footage, Emmanuel and I went to a small get-together with some friends. That was when we bumped into Whitney and Silas. The second Whitney saw me, her smile froze. She immediately tightened her grip on Silas' arm. I couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic. In the early years after Silas and I got married, whenever I ran into Whitney, I'd get just as flustered and on edge as she looked right then. As soon as everyone saw Emmanuel and me enter hand in hand, they started hooting and making jokes. "Damn, Emmanuel! Who would've thought you'd actually land a beauty like her? You lucky bastard." "I'm low-key jealous. Last year, I finally worked up the guts to tell my first love how I felt, only to find out she was about to have her second kid. Just thinking about it makes me w