I Brought a Coworker as My Date to My Ex’s Wedding, and One Comment From Him Wiped the Smile Off My Ex’s Face
quietly. “When was the last time you even looked at yourself in the mirror?”
“Yes.”
Edward didn’t say anything for a long time. He just looked at the table. I saw his jaw move.
“And you believed him,” he said.
“I looked,” I said. “He was right.”
Edward looked up at me.
“Hannah,” he said. “No. He wasn’t.”
That was all he said. He didn’t make a speech. He didn’t tell me I was beautiful or any of the things people say when they want you to stop crying.
He just said, “He wasn’t,” like it was a fact. Like the sky is blue. Like water is wet.
I thought about that sentence for weeks.
Edward knew about the girls too. He’d met them a few times. At school events. At a spring carnival where June threw up a whole funnel cake on his shoes and he just laughed and
