The Wrong Woman

Chapter 13

Suzanne then pointed at the bookshelf in the room and said, “I’ve finished reading all the books on your shelf in the past few days.”

Nathan asked her again, “Are you not even going to consider it?”

Suzanne lowered her eyes. “No. I’ll leave tomorrow morning. I might never come back here again.”

Nathan didn’t bother trying to convince her anymore.

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He just walked past her and entered the room, slowly unbuttoning his shirt as he said, When we’re home, don’t bring up the divorce with Grandma. It’ll only aggravate her illness.”

Suzanne couldn’t help tightening her hold on the phone. She held it so tightly that she trembled.

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She simply couldn’t hold her emotions back and said, “I’m sorry, but I noticed a photo of a little girl in one of your books. There was something written on the back. It said, ‘My one true love, Sally Hoffis.“”

Nathan paused, his hands still in the midst of undoing his buttons. His entire body turned rigid as he froze in place.

His eyes turned dark. He said nothing.

pain in her heart. She didn’t know how to describe it. Since there

calmly, “If I’m not mistaken, you’ve always wanted to

long time for Nathan to snap back to reality and continue unbuttoning his

left to study abroad when she was 14 years old, and we lost touch

a decade since I last saw her. She still feels like a stranger to

into the bathroom and shut the door behind him while he washed up

comfort Suzanne enough. She

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known each other since they were kids, and they

of the blue, Nathan would have married Sally by now. So what was the point of her struggling and

face,

room and dimmed the lights. She wanted

to fall asleep after lying still for a while. But she couldn’t fall asleep that night, no matter

her eyes, her mind

the sound of the bathroom door opening. Nathan walked toward her and carefully

was plunged

lying just a few feet away from her, and yet she felt as if they were both separated

Nathan’s phone buzzed with a

senses were heightened in the dark.

for his phone and tapped on the notification.

voice sounded in the room. “Nate, I’m scared. Can you come here and