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go through with it… which is when she decided to blackmail me…”
    I give him a flat look.
    “You’re saying you cheated on me because you were blackmailed into it?”
    He nods.  
    “That’s one way of putting it…”
    My mouth hangs open and I give him a disbelieving stare.  
    “That’s not an excuse, Calvin. It would have been better if you let her follow through on her threat than to betray me the way you did…”
    The intensity in his face deepens. My heart flutters as the weight of his presence moves over me.
    “You’re right, and I know that now. But you don’t even know what she was using to blackmail me…”
    For some reason, the tone of his voice strikes me and makes me wonder what could possibly have been so important to him?
    “What was it?” I ask.
    “You,” he says, without hesitating.
    I shake my head.  
    “I don’t understand… I didn’t have anything to do with it.”
    “You had everything to do with it.” My heart races faster as he steps in even closer. He’s almost pressed up against me now, but I can’t even dare myself to back away from him. “If I didn’t go through with her demands, then she was going to go to you and make up an elaborate lie about how I had been having an affair with her the whole time that you and I were together. She said she would make sure that you believed her, and that she would do everything in her power to split us apart.”
    What is he talking about? Why would Renae want to do that? Is this all just another elaborate lie?
    I don’t want to believe what Calvin is saying is true. I want to go on thinking that he really had been cheating on me with Renae. That’s what I’ve been thinking for all these years, and I’ve already numbed myself to it. I don’t know how I’m supposed to handle the thought that I might have been wrong. I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle wondering how things might have played out differently if I’d only stuck around to find out what had really been going on.
    The things he’s saying are enraging. A part of me wants to track that bitch down, grab her by the hair, and throw her around until she tells me how she could possibly want to ruin something as good as what Calvin and I had.
    But the softness in Calvin’s eyes is enough to calm all of those thoughts. His eyes keep me in the moment. They make me want nothing more than to pretend that the last few years never happened, so that I won’t feel so stupid for wanting to crawl back into his arms right now.  
    “So, it’s like I told you…” Calvin continues. “I fucked up. I made the worst mistake of my life. I should have trusted that you would have believed me when I told you that I couldn’t imagine ever doing anything to ruin what we had.”
    “Why did you go through with it? Why didn’t you come to me? I would have understood. You didn’t have to sleep with her…”
    Calvin gives me a sad look and shakes his head.
    “It was a moment of weakness. It was the lowest point of my life. I panicked and made the wrong choice.” He shifts his head to the side, looking me squarely in the eye. “But I never slept with her.”
    “I saw you.”
    The words come out simply. They’re not laced with anger or bitterness like they usually are. Just the honest facts.
    I’m surprised when he lets out a little chuckle, almost breaking the tense mood. What in the world could he find funny about this situation?
    “It’s true, you saw her going down on me,” he says. My gut tightens up, but the almost playful look on his face seems so out of place that it leaves me feeling confused. “Normally I’d never admit this to anyone, but she was trying to… you know… motivate me.”
    It takes me a moment before I realize what he means.
    “You mean you couldn’t…”
    He nods, confirming my understanding.
    “I couldn’t get it up.” He lets out an embarrassed laugh and shrugs his shoulders. “I shouldn’t feel bad about it, but my ego thinks otherwise.