The Light I Turned On
I didn’t just give you a chance last night.” He blinked, lost.
“I gave you a chance the first night you came home at one in the morning smelling of someone else and lied about a team dinner.
I gave you a chance the day I asked if you were hiding something and you called me paranoid.
I gave you a chance the night you invited her into my home, sat her beside me, and made me smile while your mother praised her.
You had a hundred chances to look at me and stop.
You never took one.