I Married My Best Friend—Days Before Our Fifth Anniversary, I Heard Him Say, “She Walked Right Into My Trap”

you.” He smiled sadly. “I was telling my dad that I thought my plan was almost complete.”

“You were talking to your father?”

“He still asks about you every week.”

I sank into a chair.

Every terrible possibility I’d imagined dissolved.

Only to reveal something somehow more painful.

Matthew hadn’t spent a lifetime trying to control me.

He’d done it because continue reading …