My Husband Came Home From His “Prize Cruise” With Another Woman—Then the Man Behind Him Handed Over Papers About My Forged Mortgage Signature

“This isn’t over.”

“The legal matters aren’t over,” I said.

“They’ll go through the proper process.”

“You know what I mean.”

I looked at him.

“It is for me.”

I meant the marriage I had continued carrying while he treated it as something inconvenient to disclose.

I meant the habit of asking him to agree that I deserved an answer before I sought one elsewhere.