Truth: Evan & Krystal by Lucy Rinaldi

There’s no easy way for me to say this, Krystal, but the biopsy we took from the lump in your breast was malignant. I’m afraid you have breast cancer.

Krystal: Those are not the words a woman wants to hear any day in her life. I’ve had the worst three months of my life. My baby boy died, the man I loved walked out on me the very same day. He took to sleeping around like I never meant anything to him. And I do mean he sleeps with any woman that crossed his path. Age, race, size, looks, none of that matters. As long as she has a pu**y between her legs, he’s all up in it. Leaving me to grieve our son all alone.

If all of that wasn’t bad enough, now I’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer and I can’t afford the treatment I’ll need to survive this. You know what makes this whole thing worse? There’s no one for me to turn to, no one for me to lean on. My best friend just had a baby, my sister lives in Germany, and my parents? They’re not the kind of parents to care about their children.
They’d think of me as a burden to them. I don’t want to be that to anyone.

I don’t know what will become of me, but I do know that I’ve messed up bigtime. I stupidly left my diary in a place Evan managed to find it. Now he wants to help me. To be there for me through everything. Why on earth would I want that lying,
cheating pig to help me now when he couldn’t be there for me after our son died?

Evan: I’m everything she says I am. A liar, a cheat, I’m no good to anyone, I’m a waste of air. I left her when she needed me the most. But what she doesn’t realize is, I didn’t do it hurt her. it’s a copout, I know. But it’s the truth. Something happened to me the day my son died. Something snapped inside of me, something broke and I don’t know how to fix it

That’s why I fill my time with willing women. Anything I can do to try and forget, I’ll do it. Trouble is, nothing works. I can’t forget the woman I love. I know I don’t deserve her, I never did. But then I find out she has breast cancer and no way to pay for treatment.

There is nothing in the world I won’t do for that girl. Treatment paid for! I’m scared out of my mind that I’ll lose her. I can’t lose her. I know I did wrong, but I had my reasons. I’ll show her how sorry I am. No matter what I have to do, I will not give up on her. I will show her what she means to me, and I will help her through this, no matter what I have to do

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