Chapter 20

Having received the divorce agreement from her lawyer, Rebecca had anticipated this moment. She knew that once Stephan found out the truth, he would inevitably ask her this question. He, after all, believed that her love for him had been absolute, which emboldened him to shamelessly justify his infidelity by claiming he simply "still hadn't had his fill of life" yet. He was certain her affection for him was absolute and that if she ever moved on, it would only be out of spite or a desire for revenge. He attempted to use this justification to comfort his excessively self-indulgent nature. He kept convincing himself that there was no such thing as steadfast love in this world and that all the unfaithful acts he had committed before were merely human nature. He told himself that anyone else in his shoes wouldn't be able to resist either and that they would have made the exact choices too. He assured himself that if even the woman for whom one had once tried to turn over a new leaf pro