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Husband leaves his sick wife to be with his mistress. She Acts When He Returns For Her Inheritance.
Battlefield at home
Though neither of us was ready to admit it yet, our house suddenly resembled a battleground. Like he could control the story, he behaved as though nothing was unusual.
But I could see the fissures developing, the way his eyes flicked about when he believed I was not watching.
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Midnight whispers
I would hear him on the phone late at night speaking softly. Thinking I wouldn’t notice, he would have stepped outside and then avoided making eye contact when he came back in.
Something was happening, something he wanted me to keep from knowing about. But I had already ceased giving particular thought to the details of his existence.
Whatever secrets he believed he was hiding, they wouldn’t alter the approaching reality.
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