He Spent Two Years Mocking How Tired I Looked While I Paid Every Bill. He Never Mentioned Whose Name Was on the Mortgage
There had been no way to expose Trent without exposing Renata, and no way to expose Renata without breaking his brother’s heart in the process, and I had made my peace with that in the lawyer’s office days before, because my children’s floor had been spent and the truth was the truth and it was not mine to soften for his comfort.
But I caught his eye for a moment across that ruined party, two people who had been lied to under the same roof, and something passed between us that was not quite an apology and not quite solidarity but had a little of both in it.
We were the two honest ones in a marriage-shaped fraud, and we had both just found out at the same second, and neither of us had deserved any of it.
Chapter 15 — Nothing Left to Talk About
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