g a deliberate distance between us. I pic

awyer will be in touch. You and Leo can raise his son h

ehend that her control over me was broken. She thought this was just an argumen

oice. "We built this life together. Remember our trip to Italy? Remember

ad so thoroughly poisoned. The memories she invoked were now

aid, turning to face her fully. "That l

n me. I walked over to the coffee table and laid the first one down. It was the

Her mask of compos

at?" she whispered, h

he next, a timeline of her betrayal laid out on the polished wood of our coffee table. I saved the most painful ones for last. A photo of them celebrating what I now knew

eo is trying to blackmail us. He wants money, Etha

wall, hoping something would stick. But it was too late. The evid

, not really. Sarah' s people had, but the effect was

ised each other total honesty. I had told her I could forgive almost anything, but not cheating. Not lies. It w

what I thought was sincerity. "I would nev

e was a bit

e surface. "How could you lie to my face every single day for three years? How could you sleep in my bed at night after you' d been with

ion, the full weight of her d

. You erased our life. You made a mock

e, she looked afraid. Not of losing me, but of bein

ction. It only deepened the