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.

her heart. She didn’t know how to describe it. Since there was nothing she could do about it, she pretended not to be

mistaken, you’ve always wanted to marry Sally,

for Nathan to snap back

liked her when I was young. But she left to study abroad when she was 14 years

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

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

enough. She was still hurting inside.

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the third wheel. After all, Nathan and Sally had known each other since they were kids, and they

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

hit Suzanne’s face, making her

dimmed the lights. She wanted to go to bed before Nathan came out of the

asleep after lying still for a while. But she couldn’t fall asleep that night, no matter how hard she tried. Maybe it was because

eyes, her mind would start

sound of the bathroom

entire room was

a few feet away from her, and yet she felt as if they were both separated by an ocean.

Nathan’s phone buzzed with a

were heightened in

for his phone and tapped on the notification. It was a voice message from Sally.

soft, sickeningly sweet voice sounded in the room. “Nate, I’m scared. Can you come