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sighed.
    ‘Can you just park up and come and meet me, I want
to talk in person not over the phone and I promise I’m going to be completely honest
from here on out, no more lies.’
    ‘No more lies from what point, Zac?’
    ‘I’ve been honest from the moment you caught me on
Friday honey, promise.’
    ‘If you hadn’t just lied again Zac, I might have
been willing to meet you and talk. I was feeling sorry for you, like I’d been a
shit girlfriend not to imagine the pain you were going through, but you’ve just
blown it,’ I hissed down the phone. ‘I’m at ours right now, there’s coke all
over the worktops, I found your stash in your suitcase, and you’ve emptied our
joint savings account.’ I heard him gasp and the sound of a chair scraping on
the floor.
    ‘You tricked me?’ he yelled down the phone.
    ‘Don’t even think about getting mad with me,’ I
yelled back. ‘You’ve been tricking me for a long time. I bet you’ve been
laughing, stupid Ellie has no idea what’s going on behind her back, well you
just made my mind up for me, Zac. We’re done. Most of my stuff is already gone,
I’ll have someone come and get all of my books and seeing as how you owe me
£15K from our savings account you’re not getting the engagement ring back, I’ll
sell it to help me set myself up somewhere new.’
    ‘Don’t you dare fucking walk away,’ he spat. ‘I’m
coming back right now, you have no idea what’s been going on in my life.
I’m not losing you, too.’
    ‘You lost me the minute you shut me out and
started cheating and lying Zac, it’s just neither of us realised it. Goodbye.’
I cut him off with shaking hands and went back to the bedroom and sat on the
dressing table stool, backed up my data to iCloud, put my phone on the floor
and stamped on it until it shattered. Damn that felt good.
    ‘What are you doing?’ exclaimed Brooke as she came
back in.
    ‘We don’t have time, he’s going to be on his way
back.’
    ‘Shit, you crumbled and told him didn’t you?’ she
groaned. ‘I knew I couldn’t trust you to leave you alone. Right, we have less
than half an hour then, Mike’s on his way up to take the cases so if you don’t
want to see him go in the bathroom, I’ll handle it. Anything else to pack from
here?’ I looked around the bedroom, my side of the wardrobe was empty, the
drawers on the dresser were hanging out and empty, same with the bedside table.
I shook my head. ‘Move it quick,’ she hissed.
    I ran into our en-suite and shut the door and
heard her wheeling the cases out and the mumbling of voices. I almost laughed
when I realised I was sitting on the toilet, habit I guess, I never sat down in
here unless it was on the loo. I pulled Zac’s stash of coke from my back pocket
and sprinkled it down the toilet and flushed it, then took one last look around
the room, at the sink I brushed my teeth at every day with my whitening
toothpaste, the mirror I used to do my makeup in, the shower I used every
morning and where Zac and I had often had morning sex, before it all went pear
shaped. He’d probably had sex in there with other women, I needed to forget
sentimentality, he’d soon forgotten all of that when he started cheating on me.
I looked up as the door opened.
    ‘Sorted?’
    ‘Yes, we need to get going, he’ll be here soon.’
    ‘Thanks,’ I smiled, weakly. I suddenly felt
drained, the pent up emotions of everything that had happened were pushing at
my outer defences, and I wasn’t sure how long I could hold them back.
    ‘You don’t have time for that now, come on, we’ll
get chocolate and ice cream and you can cry as much as you want later.’ She
held out her hand and hauled me up. We grabbed the two remaining cases with my
essentials from the hall and I took one last look at the large modern open plan
room. I was leaving a huge portion of my life behind, I’d chosen the art work
and all of the soft furnishing and accessories that turned his Bachelor pad
into