CHAPTER 8

So, well, Shane came home that same night.
Carmen, of course, wasn’t happy about it.
At all.
During the following weeks, they both did their best to stand each other and, honestly, it was quite difficult.
The main reason was that we – the lawyers – already had a free hand over their relationship, their issues… and their house.
The second reason was the grudge.
Basically, Carmen was mad at Shane because Shane had:

1) ignored her
2) taken her for granted
3) cheated on her

And Shane, by her part, was mad at Carmen because:

1) Carmen didn’t forgive her
2) Carmen wanted a divorce
3) Carmen wanted the house

What they didn’t realize, in those days, was that they were still madly in love with each other.
And they should have known it.
Because that smoking hot attraction – the physical attraction – was still there and was completely undamaged.
The only problem was that it was drowning into a sea of rage and disappointment and mistrust.
Gosh.
Maybe this is the reason why they had to hurt each other so bad, before finding their way back home.

Flashback – Carmen

Okay, Shane and I are doing our best.
I mean, we can’t stand each other and we practically don’t talk at all, but still we are doing our best not to jump to each other’s throat.
The weeks go by, one by one.
Me, sleeping in our bedroom.
Shane, sleeping in the guest room.
She goes to work in the early morning and comes back home in the late evening.
Personally, I am totally engrossed in my new business and, thank God, this is helping me a lot.
Because I don’t really want to think about Shane too much.
I don’t really want to think about the feeling of her skin on my skin.
I don’t really want to think about her kisses and her hands and her eyes.
Sometimes, when I glance at her as she quickly walks across the rooms, I feel completely disgusted by her very presence.
Some other times, there is this heat core going through my veins and stopping under my belly.
And those are the hardest moments.
Those are the moments when I hate her the most because I feel that I am still in love with her.
As far as she’s concerned, Shane is unreadable.
She was totally and utterly hurt when I told her about the divorce, but then she let her walls taking over and now…
Well, now she’s as cold as an iceberg.
And the more she’s cold, the more I’m mad at her.