Chapter 87: [Bonus - ]Second Date - Dacey’s POV
Heading into this date, her expectations were not high. Rob had repeatedly snubbed her off twice to take care of other business two days in a row. And his lack of preparedness in the morning was also very evident.
While they had made plans to meet up in the morning, Rob had not given her any fixed time. So, she assumed that he would pick her up at 10. But, when she had called him to confirm that at 9 AM, learning that he was still sleeping was a bitter pill to swallow.
By then, she was already ready and prepared to head out.
Ever since she divorced her ex-husband, her life has been on a downward spiral. The same thing had happened with a few other men she had dated over the years. First, they would reduce spending time with her by citing other businesses, then their interest in hanging out with her would become low, and finally, they would start avoiding her altogether.
She had seen this pattern repeat a couple of times before.
When Rob started exhibiting the same pattern, all the memories that she had buried deep inside her came back like a flood. Anxiously waiting for Rob for that two hours for him to pick her up was the worst she had experienced ever since she moved away from her hometown.
She hadn’t been on a proper date ever since she shifted here. Her concentration had all been on getting her life together and making some sense of the mess it had turned out into. She didn’t have time to waste by going on dates or something similar.
Until that moment, she had thought she had moved past her past experiences and was healing a bit. But, Rob’s actions once more brought up some unwanted memories.
Looking back, she wouldn’t be surprised if Rob decided to ditch her. Her actions have been erratic of late. Ever since that article came out, she just couldn’t get the thought of Rob leaving LWC out of her mind.
There was a reason that the article bothered her that much. Her marriage had gone off rails because of one such incident where her ex-husband had come home one night and announced that he was switching companies out of the blue.
Initially, she hadn’t minded it that much as she didn’t care much about where he worked, as long as he came home to her at the end of the day. But, things started changing once her ex-husband shifted companies. He found a pretty girl there and started having an affair with her behind her back.
That experience had left her with a permanent mental scar. It was like a poisonous whisper that kept telling her that Rob was going to move out of LWC and find another girl in his new company, just like what her ex-husband did.