He Tested Me With Prenup I Left Him With Regret Chapter 05
Grant spun around. “Are you sure?”
The assistant handed him the phone.
On the screen was the official reply from the University of Chicago admissions office.
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When I landed in Chicago, the university car service was already waiting outside the airport.
A staff member loaded my luggage into the trunk and asked casually, “What made you move from Charleston?”
I looked out the window. Unfamiliar buildings lit up one by one, a line of lights stretching into the distance.
“I thought I couldn’t live without the sunshine there,” I said. “Turns out I just needed to get out from under a storm cloud.”
I had barely stepped into the apartment when my new prepaid phone started ringing.
Grant had gotten the number through our lawyers.
“You made it.”
“I did.”
“When are you coming back?”
He didn’t ask where I was staying.
He didn’t ask if the trip had gone smoothly.
He spoke as if my leaving were just a trip, one that was waiting for his permission to be over.
I rolled my suitcase against the wall.
“The lease is for one year. The program is two.”
There was silence on the other end for a few seconds.
“If there’s something in the prenup you don’t like, we can talk about it. What is it you want?”
I lowered my eyes to the lights outside the window.
“There’s nothing left for us to talk about.”
“You’re just leaving like this?”
For the first time, his voice wavered.
“Grant, you told me that if I wasn’t in this for the money, then those clauses shouldn’t make any difference. You were right.”
He seemed to seize on that immediately. “So you’ll come back?”
“No.”
I tightened my grip on the phone and said each word clearly. “Those clauses made no difference because this marriage was never going to happen.”
Only his breathing remained on the line.
“You tested the wrong thing, Grant. You should have been testing your own trust, not my price.”
I hung up without waiting for him to answer.