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Chapter 1 Something Is Off
the smi
for his boss or his mother or anyone whose opinion he actually cares about. This is a differe
his phone face-down beside his plate, a
, setting my glass
sts itself so fast it almos
smiling at
fork. "Just thinking ab
o my chicken and
ed. The kind of man who can look you dead in the eye and tell you the sky is green and almost make you question yo
. Every bit the devoted husband comi
brates again
or it before
n?" I ask
t look up. "Just t
chat. At eight-thirty
my water and s
ng because eve
cause I already
Derek started carrying his phone everywhere, even to the bathroom. The way he started sleeping with it under his pillow instead o
kind of things a woman notices w
s been payin
t week," he says, still looking at
w l
ybe thre
et me know when y
e relaxes. Like he expected a different answer. Li
ls me ev
ing the water longer than necessary, listening to the sounds of him in th
f the tap
ng, voice dropped lo
t
hing where it squeezes and then goes completely sti
e is off the phone by the time I appear in th
ing okay
s. "Just confirm
back.
dow and I do the thing I have trained myself to do since I was a l
not r
th
The call he took the second I left the room. I think about the
en last Thursday when he left his phone on the counter for
ien
. No emoji.
her exactly once, in the way men mention exes they want you to thin
the time becaus
and open Facebook and type
ne Cal
woman, dark hair, wedding ring catching the
cro
her tagge
ing beside a tall man with dark hair and a jaw th
I
tare at the ceiling until Derek co
not s
pl
