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.

dark. He

to describe it. Since

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

to snap back to reality and continue unbuttoning his shirt.

left to study abroad when she was 14 years old, and we lost

like a stranger to me,

door behind him while he washed up for bed.

didn’t comfort Suzanne enough. She was still

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known each

out of the blue, Nathan would have married Sally by now. So what was the point of her struggling and trying to

cold breeze hit Suzanne’s face, making her

dimmed the lights. She wanted to go to

to fall asleep after lying still for a while. But she couldn’t fall asleep that night, no matter how hard she tried. Maybe it was because Nathan

her eyes, her mind would start wandering elsewhere.

sound of the bathroom door opening. Nathan

entire room was plunged into darkness.

was lying just a few feet away from her, and yet she felt as if

Nathan’s phone buzzed with a