He sla:p:ped me until I bled for asking where he was—so I prepared a silent, elegant Southern breakfast that hid a truth he never saw coming.

copied, recorded, and stored in three separate places.

Caleb turned toward the hallway mirror, adjusting his cufflinks as if he hadn’t just struck his wife.

“You’ll make breakfast,” he said. “My mother is coming. Don’t embarrass me.”

I tasted blood and smiled behind my hand.

“Of course,” I whispered.

That satisfied him. He believed he had won.

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