Cheating Wife's Double Life
Cotton Wood
my husband's affair, my anniversary gift
"They say this watch is one of a kind... I wonder how it sounds when it shatters?"
With a vicious, deliberate motion, he hurled it at the marble floor.
"No!" I screamed, lunging forward.
The sapphire crystal exploded into a thousand glittering shards. Tiny gears and springs scattered across the floor. A sympathetic fracture seemed to split my own chest open—something inside me shattered along with it. The livestream chat, once a raging torrent, fell into a stunned, horrified silence.
"See that?" Brian whooped, stomping his shoe down on the ruined dial, grinding the remnants into dust. "That's how little you mean to her! Worthless! And you treated it like a treasure?"