Her Wasted Love
At a family dinner celebrating Allison Bullock, my stepdaughter's acceptance into one of the city's top high schools, I stood in the kitchen slicing sea bass while listening to the conversation outside.
One relative laughed and asked, "She's such a smart girl. I wonder which side of the family she takes after?"
My husband, Tobias Bullock, took a sip of his liquor and smiled. "I have to thank my ex-wife, Alyvia Livingston, for that. Her family is full of top scholars."
My knife slipped, burying itself silently into the cutting board.
Seven years.
I was his current wife. I was the one who had spent every day supporting his gifted daughter.
Yet in his story, I wasn't even worth mentioning