Before you left, I would have been shattered when she chose another guy over me. The unfortunate reality is I would never have been able handle it as ...ell as I did if you hadn't chosen Trevor and Simon over me." David, that's not fair." Fair had nothing to do with it. I have always been right here. You're the one who wouldn't accept me, until I was up to your standards," I said and then stopped myself. "Find a place to pull the car over. I need to get out and think before I say things I can. ‘Uh … my dear, I couldn’t find words,’ I sighed, trying to catch my breath and reorient myself. ‘Any words. The English language was almost entirely wiped from my mind.’ That was partially true. I couldn’t think of where I was or what I was thinking, but the past several minutes were much like a particular time with Robert when I intentionally bent down from the hips to pick up a scrap piece of something off my kitchen floor and he drove me to the table, ripped my pants down, bent me over the. Christmas was for family and friends and that someone special. To be alone on Christmas Day in a New York apartment, far from home, was the going to be the hardest thing that she ever had to endure. All because of a deadline.Andie rolled over onto her back. Tears started and she silently let them roll down her cheeks. Instinctively she stretched her hand out to the other side of the bed, knowing that he wouldn't be there. He hadn't been there for six weeks and he would never be there again.. The store had not been very busy that day and business wasn'texpected to pick up so there weren't very many people working the store.Finally she made her way to the back room. She put her name tag into herlocker and took out her jacket when someone cleared his throat behindher.She turned to find Allen sitting in a chair."Were you there all along?" she asked him.Allen nodded, then stood up and went to the door. He locked it andturned back to her smiling."Here," he said.Cynthia's eyes went wide.