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shore when I snapped to attention.
    “Unlock the door, Jacob,” Annika shouted. Her muffled voice echoed in from the front hallway.
    Would Jake let her in? What could she say that mattered now?
    I had to find out.

CHAPTER TEN

    I waited behind my bedroom door. Wondering if he would let her in. Wondering if I could sneak out unobserved from the living room.
    A murmur of voices drifted in. Hard words passed back and forth, just quiet enough so I couldn’t understand them. A minute later the front door slammed shut.
    Was she gone? Was it finally, forever, over? It couldn’t just boil away back to calm, could it? That seemed impossible. Jake radiated rage all the way home. It was hard to imagine that boiling off to anything that resembled calm.
    But what if it did?
    That bitch was tricky. Conniving and cunning. She had long claws and was determined to keep them sunk into Jake. She’d manipulate him into makeup sex and she’d try to wriggle her way back into his life. Their relationship was doomed. Surely she saw that.
    I saw it. I thought Jake saw it.  
    I had to be sure.
    I tiptoed out into the hall, through the living room, and down to his closed bedroom door. I didn’t have to lean in or use a cup or anything. The yelling-talking came through loud and clear, even through the thick wood door.
    “Why should I care,” Jake said.
    “Because it’s the truth,” Annika said.
    “The truth,” he said. “You’re telling me that you’ve been seeing that asshole for the last year, and yet, somehow, you were just tonight about to break it off with him?”
    “I’m telling you that because it’s true,” she said.
    “Bullshit,” he said. “Why should I believe you? Why should I care? You fucked me over. Cheated on me the entire time we were together. You’re a lying, worthless bitch.”
    “Don’t be an asshole,” she said.
    “Me,” he yelled. “Me the asshole? Where do you get off, you faithless whore!”
    “Nice, Jacob,” she said. “So mature.”
    “I saw you Annika,” he said, “with my own eyes. You weren’t about to end it with anybody. You sucked face like a high school virgin on prom night. He had his paws all over your tits and you sure as hell didn’t seem to mind.”
    “I just didn’t want to make him angry,” she said.
    “Oh heavens no,” he said. “Don’t make the bastard angry. Don’t upset the dickhead who’s cheating on his wife and fucked my girlfriend from before the first night we met.”
    “I’m sorry, Jacob,” she said. “Believe me.”
    “Annika, your mouth spews lies like a horse’s ass spews shit,” he said.
    “Fuck you,” she said, “I’m trying to apologize here.”
    “Oh,” he said, “and you’re doing such a great job of that.”
    Something crashed and shattered. Thousands of tiny pieces tinkled to stillness.
    “Nice Jacob,” she said.
    “You disgust me, Annika,” he said.
    “I’m sorry,” she said.
    “Why did you do it,” he said, “Why?”
    “Does it matter,” she said. “It happened. I wished it hadn’t.”
    “Bullshit,” he said. “You wish you hadn’t gotten caught. He’d be balls-deep in your traitorous cunt right now if I hadn’t seen you. And that’s the crazy part. I don’t fucking care. I’ve moved on.”
    “Jacob,” she said, “you still love me. I know it.”
    “You? No. I don’t love you . You don’t hold a flicker of a candle…”
    He trailed off. Did my name come next? The secret his heart didn’t want to tell.
    “What are you saying, Jacob,” she said.
    “You know what I’m saying, Annika,” he said. Her name spewed out like hot vomit.
    “Are you having an affair,” she said.
    “Are you insane? We aren’t together anymore. It’s logically not possible to cheat on you,” he said.
    “Don’t avoid the question,” she said. “Are you fucking around on me you asshole?”
    “Hold the fucking phone,” he said, “now I’m the asshole. Shove your face in a shattered mirror for one