Fortress

Chapter 42

Back to the moment I crashed into you

Like so many wrecks do.

Will that make your memory fade from this scarlet maroon

like it never happened.

Weeks Later

"Brooke deserves more then this. She deserves you're honesty." Haley proclaimed.

"That's really easy for you to say Haley. My life. My marriage is on the lin here." Lucas replied.

"Keeping Brooke in the dark is wrong and unfair."

"I was Brooke under different circumstances but still."

"When the man you love is keeping information from you."

"It's one of the worst feelings in the world. Because Brooke especially poured so much of herself into you're relationship over these years and everything that went on."

"I've stayed out of it because it isn't my place to tell her."

"If you want the chance to save the relationship tell her everything." Haley insisted.

...

"I made an appointment for us for therapy."

"We can't go on like this Luke."

"I want us back so much. I know we've gone through a rough time for awhile now."

"But if we're both willing to do the work needed."

"We'll be okay. We've got too much invested to just throw it away." Brooke stated matter of fact.

As Lucas walked closer to her at Clothes over bros.

"I slept with another woman."

"But i stopped it. You were growing apart from me."

"I was losing you at least it felt like that."

"Brooke understand. I felt alone in our marriage."

"You had this new life i wasn't included in." Lucas confessed.

Brooke couldn't speak. She pushed against him as he apologized and pleaded with her to forgive him.

"Go. Leave." Brooke insisted. The emotion in her voice thick.

"Brooke please. Baby." Lucas begged.

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