I smiled on the day my husband finalized our divorce and married the woman he had been seeing behind my back while I was eight months pregnant.

hoped you were, tell her the full truth.

C.B.

Emily stared at the initials.

Chloe Bennett.

The note had been written four years earlier and somehow ended up among the returned belongings, unopened.

Nathan looked shaken. “She tried to tell me.”

Emily read the note once more.

Not absolution.

But context.

Chloe had been careless, ambitious, lonely, and wrong. continue reading …