The Call He Never Answered

cookie balanced on his forehead. As the room erupted in applause when he succeeded, I cheered, "Go, Mark

o ruin everything. You're such a killjoy. So boring." Then, in front of everyone

ably in the passenger seat of our car, flashed a sickeningly sweet smile and called me "Sis-in-law." I remembered Mark onc

hday." In the corner, my wedding ring rested on a man' s hand. When Mark returned, he joked, "What' s the occ

n the trash. He tried to appease me with expensive jewelry, a routine apology after every fight. But when

e simply muttered, "For God' s sake, Olivia," before rushing to Lily' s side after she called him

myself free? That night, for the first time in a decade, I slept so