Chapter 46 Reinstate Iv

• Erica's [POV]
• People like to say time heals all wounds, but it's a lie. Wounds don't heal. They fester inside you, turning everything rotten. I should know. Because I must be pretty fucking rotten to deserve the never-ending parade of betrayal that colors the landscape of my life.
• It's been two weeks since Judge uttered his confession so callously and opened my eyes to the truth. I was foolish before. Naïve enough to believe we could have something. Stupid enough to believe I meant something to him. I clung to that desperate want in a hopeless situation. But I'm not the same woman now that I was then.