A car door slammed. Footsteps came up our walkway, steady and unhurried, like they belonged to someone who had been invited.
Then came the knock!
Aaron’s soft smile grew wider, and I knew, with cold certainty, that whoever stood on the other side of that door was the missing piece of the lie he had built for more than a decade.
“Well, well,” my husband said. “Did you really think I was with you because of love?”
I stood and kept my wine glass steady. I did not trust my voice yet, so I only tilted my head and waited.
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The door swung open, and the person who had knocked walked inside. I turned slowly, already bracing myself for some woman I had never seen before. But it was not a strange woman I did not know.
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