My Husband Left Me Dying for Her. I Made Him Regret It novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Brake Line
I turned around.
Arianna was already stepping back, smoothing her sequins, smiling.
"Say that again," I said. "Louder. There's a girl from Pulse right outside."
"Say what?" She widened her eyes. "I came to tell you the cake is gorgeous."
She unlocked the door and swept out.
I stood at the sink and held on to the marble until my hands stopped.
In the car I told them both.
Delfina swore in two languages for six blocks.
Aaron didn't say anything at all. He just drove, constantly checking the mirror all the way back over the bridge.
That night he moved the recliner from the living room into the hall outside my bedroom door.
"That's the same chair Silvio's soldier sat in," I said.
"Mine faces the other way."
The week went by.
The Pulse video of the invoice had four million views by Monday. The Chronicle ran the photo of me tucking it into Silvio's pocket under the headline UNIFORM SUPPLIES.
On Thursday we had Thanksgiving at Delfina's.
Aaron brought a store pie and apologized for it at the door. Delfina took it from him and put it on top of the refrigerator where nobody could reach it.
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