My eyes widened in disbelief. Did Calden really just say that he still wanted me? It felt like a line straight out of a cheesy romance novel, but in this moment, it was more laughable than heart-warming.
The wounds from our past were reopened, and my heart bled once again. Who was he to claim such a thing? Did he cherish me when we were together?
“Calden, wake up! We’re divorced, remember?” My voice trembled. “That’s what you wanted, right? There’s nothing between us anymore, and there never will be!”
My words were laced with anger as I scolded Calden, determined to forget him once and for all. But Calden seemed even more determined to remind me of our painful history, to resurrect those suffocating years that I had worked so hard to leave behind.
He wanted to remind me of my
