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< p > my husband's ex -wife.

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< p > — What are you doing here ? — asked quietly.

< p > looked only at him.

< p > as if I was not here in the fire.

< p > — I thought about everything. I wanted to see you. I wanted & hellip; see if you still feel something for me.

< p > I clenched my hands in my fist.

< p > — This is probably not the best time for such conversations.

< p > looked at me with pity.

< p > — I didn't want to offend you & Hellip; Just & Hellip; You know, I was here first.

< P >In her voice was confidence that & oacute; ran to me from the inside.

< p > as if she was convinced that she still had the right to this house, to this man, to this life.

< p > did not have to m & oacute; more.

< p > I have been with Marek for five years.

< p > but she was his first wife. Love from the old days. Someone he once chose for his future & Hellip; And someone who now was & oacute; < p > but I wasn't naive. I was not going to go away.

< p > — You are a stranger here — I said hard.

< p > shifted a look at me.

< p > — No, honey. You are the second option.

< p > I felt a wave of anger in the middle.

< p > but I will not show her that she hurt me.

< p > she wanted to.

< p > — I will tell you something, since you have Kr & oacute; Memory — I started quietly, but confident.

< p > — You left him. You decided that you can live without him.

< p > The smile disappeared from her face.

< p > — And now you come back and you think that one look is enough for everything we have with Marek to fall apart ?

< p > We looked into the eyes.

< p > silence has become heavy. I waited. For her words, for her explosion, on her retort.

< p > but she said nothing. Understood.

< p > She did not come here as a woman who wins. She came to beg for something she rejected herself.

< p > and now she saw that this is not her story.

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< p > because I already knew one.

< P > I'm not the second option. I am the one who won

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116