The Wrong Woman

Chapter 13

Suzanne then pointed at the bookshelf in the room and said, “I’ve finished reading all the books on your shelf in the past few days.”

Nathan asked her again, “Are you not even going to consider it?”

Suzanne lowered her eyes. “No. I’ll leave tomorrow morning. I might never come back here again.”

Nathan didn’t bother trying to convince her anymore.

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He just walked past her and entered the room, slowly unbuttoning his shirt as he said, When we’re home, don’t bring up the divorce with Grandma. It’ll only aggravate her illness.”

Suzanne couldn’t help tightening her hold on the phone. She held it so tightly that she trembled.

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She simply couldn’t hold her emotions back and said, “I’m sorry, but I noticed a photo of a little girl in one of your books. There was something written on the back. It said, ‘My one true love, Sally Hoffis.“”

Nathan paused, his hands still in the midst of undoing his buttons. His entire body turned rigid as he froze in place.

turned dark.

throbbing pain in her heart. She didn’t know how to describe it. Since there was nothing she

I’m not mistaken, you’ve always wanted to

Nathan to snap back to

left to study

been more than a decade since I last saw her. She still feels like a stranger to

door behind him while he washed up for

didn’t comfort Suzanne enough. She was still hurting inside.

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and Sally had known each other since they were kids, and they had

Sally by now. So what was the point of her struggling and trying to keep this

face, making her heart

lights. She wanted to go

be able to fall asleep after lying still for a while. But she couldn’t fall asleep that night, no matter how hard she tried.

as she closed her eyes, her mind would start wandering elsewhere.

vaguely heard the sound of the bathroom door opening. Nathan walked toward her and carefully got into

entire room was plunged into

few feet away from her, and

phone buzzed