Gwen spent the next few days wallowing. She saw the look on Jack's face when she'd rejected him, and her heart felt bruised all over again.
It's better this way, she told herself. I can't give him what he deserves.
She told herself that, but it didn't make her feel better. It made her feel even more broken. She wished she was brave like Alex, who'd gone swimming with sharks and climbed to the base of Mount Everest. But instead, Gwen was practically scared of her own shadow. She hated herself for being so weak.
She'd never told Alex or Felicity about why, exactly, her marriage to Tim had failed. For all they knew, they'd simply grown apart, a narrative that Gwen had done nothing to contradict.
Alex probably wouldn't understand, Gwen had always figured. It wasn't that she wouldn't be emp
