I no longer tried to find out whether he had truly intended to move in with her permanently or whether he had simply created another convenient place to live his double life.
The answer no longer mattered.
A month later, Marina sent me a long message.
She apologized for her part in what had happened. She didn’t make excuses, ask for friendship, or attempt to place all the responsibility on Andrew.
She simply admitted that she had been wrong to trust a man who had already destroyed their relationship once before.
I sent her a short reply.
«Thank you for finally telling me the truth.»
We didn’t become friends. There was too much pain between us.
But I stopped considering her the only person responsible for what had happened.
