Page 40 of David's Chase

Some things are meant to kill us day by day. Minute by minute. And I hope she’s one of those things.

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LIZ

Earlier

I went backand forth with this idea.

Flying out and meeting David in New York.

Lying to everybody about where I’m spending my weekend, yet here I am on my way to meet the man who seemingly changes my life in unpredictable ways.

I was torn after having that conversation with Rain, and not because coming to New York to have some fun had anything to do with what she said to me.

By giving me her take on her relationship with David, she put things in perspective for me.

On the one hand, it made me realize I needed to thread carefully and not let myself get carried away by a man who already knew how to push my buttons and made me feel things I hadn’t felt before.

On the other hand, she made me more curious than ever about David’s past. I don’t think that coming here to meet him will help me in that direction.

After doing an online search, I gathered some information about his past.

It’s not much, and it’s mostly things about his business dealings and how he’s built his wealth.

He is a wealthy man––that’s not news. But he lost a lot of money when he divorced his wife.

Samantha Rove is her name, and she currently resides in Texas. She is engaged to an oil tycoon and will get married next year.

She’s not doing that bad herself.

A skinny woman with high cheekbones, she’s about his age and doesn’t look like a model or an actress.

She doesn’t look like the women he used to hire to keep him company either—or like me.

She’s a wealthy, normal looking woman.

She must have made him pay through his nose for asking for a divorce.

From what I’ve seen, women are more likely to file for a divorce. That hasn’t been the case with them.

What made him lead a double life is still a mystery.

What made him marry her entirely escapes me.

I have a hard time imagining him being someone’s husband. He has the demeanor of someone who’ll never live for anyone other than himself.

It’s so smoothly ingrained in him not to be accountable to anyone that I can’t honestly picture David Moore more than what he is.

A free man who has nothing to offer a woman except for some escapism and hot sex.

So, that helped me make up my mind.

I still want to know more about him, but I won’t complicate my life by trying to understand why he is the way he is.

Pulling this off hasn’t been easy.

I worked hard for it.

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