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French cuisine?
That’s Charlotte’s thing, not mine.
Drifting around the country for inspiration, soaking up “artisan living“–
also her thing.
To Alexander and his friends,
I’ve always just been the small–town girl who wasn’t fit for their fancy world.
A nobody trying too hard to play upper class.
A parasite who married up.
Alexander never said it out loud.
But when his friends made those comments,
he never once defended me.
He hesitated for a second.
“I’ve been slammed at work. It’s not like I don’t want to check in on you.”
“The trip to Montana was for Charlotte’s design research.”
“She’s leading the new collection this season.”
“You wouldn’t get it, and that’s okay. I don’t blame you.”
He was terrified I’d think badly of Charlotte,
In his mind, she was some perfect, innocent moonlight through a window.
Even when she cheated on him back then,
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he rewrote the story in his head.
Told himself she must’ve had her reasons.
She couldn’t be the other woman.
It just didn’t match her image.
I nodded like I cared.
“Right. Shouldn’t you be heading to the office? Thought you were busy.”
That annoyed him.
“Lillian, could you just think about someone besides yourself for once?”
“I work my ass off every day–for you.”
“If you helped me even a little, I wouldn’t be this burnt out.”
I nodded again.
“No worries.
You won’t have to anymore.”
My divorce attorney had just messaged me to set up a meeting.
I turned to head upstairs to change.
“Get back here! You pout every time I say something?”
“What kind of wife acts like this?”
You’d think we lived in a Victorian mansion in the Hamptons the way he said that.
He tried to follow me upstairs,
but got tripped up in the broken glass he hadn’t finished cleaning.
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For eight years,
he’s been the one throwing tantrums.
He’s the one who’s made me feel small.
I didn’t even look back.
Went up, changed,
walked right past him,
and left the house.
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