The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 313

My Husband’s Affair Becomes Public 

Mary’s POV: 

No. That’s another lie. I had noticed. I had noticed every single cold shoulder, every forgotten anniversary, every time he came home smelling like someone else’s perfume and told me I was imagining things. I had noticed, and I had said nothing, because saying something meant admitting that the marriage was already dead, and I wasn’t ready to be a widow while still wearing ny ring. 

A floorboard creaked behind me.” 

I turned. Elowen stood in the hallway, her tiara still on, her eyes red and swollen in a way that told me she hadn’t just woken up. She had been listening. Maybe for a long time. 

“Mommy,” she whispered, her voice thick with sleep and something heavier. “Where’s Daddy? The people outside are being loud.” 

I opened my mouth to lie. To smooth it over. To say no, baby, everything is fine, Daddy loves you, Daddy is just busy. But the words wouldn’t come. They stuck in my throat like fish bones. Because the truth was sitting right there on my phone screen-his arm around another woman, his voice defending her, his face twisted in anger on her behalf while I couldn’t remember the last time he had raised his voice for me. 

Before I could find something to say-some soft, useless cushion to place between her and the wreckage-the front door swung open. 

Alistair stepped inside, smelling of airport air and expensive cologne and something floral that definitely did not come from any candle I owned. He looked rumpled and tired and vaguely irritated, like a man who had just endured a long flight and found his luggage missing. He didn’t see us at first. He was too busy shrugging off his coat, too busy running a hand through his hair, too busy being annoyed at the world for making his life difficult. 

He didn’t see Elowen not until she moved. 

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