She Built Him, Then She Destroyed

Aceved

talizing the body' s betrayal from the mind' s resolve. The air in the room grew thick,

tood there, his gaze fixed on the image, the ch

gh, unfamiliar rasp. "It started a

harp betrayal. He spoke of her not with shame,

lumsy. Spilled a glass of champagne on Co

ro, her savior. While I was running the numbers, negotiating with donors, and bu

and over my shoulder, as if the past were a more comfortable place to b

he word 'tense'

After everyone left. Not even

but the chill was coming from within. Harman walked over to the bar cart and lit a cigarette, a habit

he words partially obscured by a plume o

the cigarette glowing like a ma

ht. She doesn' t question everything

. My grief over my brother, my anxiety, the emotional toll of the li

a weary, self-pitying tone. "This campaign, the city counc

no longer capable of giving. "And I come home, and you' re always w

his own ambition, by his difficult wife. I watched him, my heart a dead, heavy

The question slipped out,

something that looked like alarm. "No! G

fingers. "Don't you see? She's just... an escape. A place I can go to brea

as if he had just presented the most logi

ropping to a conspiratorial whispe

w. A choked, hysterical laugh escaped my lips. "So I should thank you? I shoul

stood up, pacing in front of the window. "I' ve been patient wit

"You have no idea how ugly you are when you lose

ars I hadn' t realized were streaming dow

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