The Wife He Cast Aside

d in health, for richer or for p

million miles away. He had meant them, I thought. Back then, in that stuffy court

hen did this cold, cruel

unded. She was probably a few months along. He had been lying to me for months. While I was injecting m

so vile it made

led out of my mouth before I could st

f pants, paused. He turned to me,

he asked, his tone dr

" I asked, my eyes locked on his. I need

It was not a happy sound. It was a cruel, mocking l

, shaking his head. "We both know that

ned that I had a condition that made getting pregnant difficult, but not impossible. David had been so suppor

pushed, desperation maki

o his face was level with mine on the

deliberately, "I would assume it wasn'

as a nail i

fingers closed around the plastic stick. With a final, desperate

avid," I whispered

gleamed in the dim

lked in, I saw a flicker of somet

rom my hand, his eyes

. "No. It' s not possib

w tight. For a single, insane moment, I thought I saw a flic

e moment

sudden, violent movement, he snapped the pregnancy test i

e snarled. "I don' t wan

me with such disgust, as if I were somethi

ofound dismissal that it made me flinch. It was like

omorrow," he said, his voice flat and final. He wal

ly called out

pau

et your walle

icked up his wallet, and then walked out of

t, the sound echoing throu

fe. A sob ripped through me, a raw, animal sound of pure agony. I curl

made, on a night we' d spent look

er leave you, Sara

t was a

ould the man I loved, the life I h

as playing a c

s the pu