You changed the password on your phone. Claimed that you needed space.
Don't pretend. I saw all those texts to Laura, your co-worker, the one you were having an affair with.
It was Isabella that caught it. You let her play on your phone at home. I was cleaning the table then. Isabella saw a text, and she wanted to show it to me. We were a family. We shared everything.
Mom, mom! Daddy got a text.
I did. And I looked through it all.
James, why?
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Short StoryWe swore to stay together. So when you shifted around, I stayed as an ever present shadow. There are more important matters than your affairs, James. I couldn't leave you because of them.