The Diary of an Unloved Wife novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Mrs. Nobody
I took the top photograph out of the box.
It was the first page of the first notebook.
I knew it before I read a word, from the way the ink had blotted where my hand shook.
I'd written it on the wedding night, after he shut the door.
On the back, in Winslow's hand, it said the date of the first Sunday after our wedding.
I put it back on the pile, face down.
Then I put the lid on the box.
"You're not going to burn them?" Winslow asked.
"Why would I burn them? They're mine."
Across the table, Colleen laughed.
It was her big laugh, the one that carried.
"Five years of it, Margery." She tipped her glass at the doorway. "Does your electrician know he's getting five volumes of Winslow?"
Malachy didn't take his hands out of his pockets.
"I've read worse," he said. "I'm reading a plumbers' union right now."
Nobody laughed, and Colleen's mouth went flat.
I looked at her across the candles.
"How long have you known he was reading them?"
"Who says I knew?"
"You did, on the phone. You said you'd been saving my secret. There wasn't anything left to save, and you knew it."
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