Part 2My Final "I Love You"

The study door slammed shut.

Almost immediately, Maya's giggles and Kellan's heavy breathing became clearly audible.

I closed my eyes, retrieved earplugs from the drawer, and returned to the master bedroom.

Lying in the dark, sleep wouldn't come.

I reached for the bedside table, grabbed a small plastic bottle, and swallowed two sleeping pills.

After a moment's thought, I took two more.

For the past two years, sleeping pills were the only way I could get any rest.

It all started around that time—

Kellan began fooling around with different women.

None of them lasted more than three months—he changed women faster than most people change clothes.

Except for Maya.

She was a freshly graduated, sweet-faced college student who became his assistant right after graduation.

She wanted money, he wanted beauty—they ended up in bed quickly.

By this Valentine's Day, it had been exactly one year.

My mother-in-law warned me anxiously, "Be careful of that girl. She's cunning. Kellan fooling around is one thing, but I don't want this to end in divorce!"

I just smiled.

Even my usually tolerant mother-in-law could see—Kellan truly cared about Maya.