Till Death Do Us Part [[ONESHOT]]

I am Richard Morse.

I am married for 10 years to Elizabeth. We have one kid. His name is Charles.

I'm home that night as my wife served dinner.

I held her hand without looking to her face.

"I've got something to tell you." I said.

She sat down and ate quietly. I observed the hurt in her eyes, its like she already know what i'm going to say.

Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking.

"I want a divorce." I raised the topic calmly.

She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly.

"Why?"

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the spoon and shouted at me.

"You are not a man!"

That night, we didn't talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer;

She had lost my heart to Jane.

I didn't love her anymore.

I just pitied her.

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement.

It stated there that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.

She glanced at it for a couple of minutes and then tore it into pieces.

The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger.

I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly.

Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see.

To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn't have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane. When I woke up in the middle of the night to drink some water, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions.

She didn't want anything from me, but needed a month's notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with our broken marriage. This was agreeable to me.

But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into our bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that every day for the month's duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning.

I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Jane about my wife's divorce conditions. She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd.

"Hahahaha No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce." she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn't had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy.