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A Secret Kept By My Wife Chapter 10
"I'll handle the milk tonight," I said.Alice was bending over, reaching for the top cabinet in the kitchen where the herbs were kept.At the sound of my voice, she turned around, still clutching the sealed jar of crushed chamomile."You don't know the measurements.""Teach me."She stared at me for a few long seconds, then handed the jar over."Two grams. One level scoop of this small spoon is exactly right. The valerian root is one gram from the other jar."I did exactly as she said.When the milk in the pot was starting to bubble, I poured the powder in and stirred it well.I scooped some up to taste. It was bitter, incredibly bitter.I added half a spoonful of honey and tried it again. It was still bitter but swallowable."You take a sip first every single night?" I asked."Yeah. If it's too bitter, you'll just keep it in your mouth without swallowing. I have to test it first."I poured the milk evenly into two glasses."Why two?" Alice asked."You're drinking it too
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"Mom, I want to hear everything about Dad from the day he was diagnosed. Don't hide a single detail from me," I said.The reception wasn't great, and Mom's voice drifted in and out through the static."Do you… really want to hear it?" she asked."Yes."She fell silent for a brief moment.I heard the sound of a window closing from her end, blocking out the wind outside.Mom started, "Your dad was diagnosed last year—no, three and a half years ago. Liver issues. Late stage.""Why didn't he tell me?""He said that there was no point. You two were fighting at the time, and he said if he called, he'd just get chewed out.""I wouldn't have—""You would have." Mom's voice was flat, but every single word hit its mark."You and your dad fought for over 20 years. He had never outtalked you, nor managed to put together a coherent argument.""Did he refuse treatment?" I asked."He did. He said there was no point wasting that hard-earned money. Your aunt tried to convince him. Your unc
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Alice said, "You didn't have any nightmares last night."She sat across from me with breakfast, watching me with a cautious look in her eyes."Yeah."It was the first time in a week that I had finished the milk on my own initiative.The brown powder stuck to the tip of my tongue. It was bitter but somehow not as hard to swallow as before."Alice, I want to know everything you've been doing for me all this time. Not just whatever you decide to tell me, but everything."She set her spoon down and stared at me for a long time. "Are you sure?""I'm sure.""The night your dad passed away, I told you about him writing the letter and asking me to watch over you, but there's one thing I left out.""What is it?" I asked."When he passed, he was holding my hand. Not your mom's. Mine. Your mom's blood pressure had spiked that day, and she was in the next room on an IV. It was just your dad and me in the room."She paused."Suddenly, he gripped my wrist with incredible force. I thought
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"Do you want to go see Dad this weekend?" Alice asked very carefully.The moment the words left her mouth, she lowered her head to clear the table, as if it didn't matter whether the question got an answer."Yes," I replied.The hand she was using to stack the dishes paused for a beat.I asked, "How many times have you been there?""I go there every Saturday.""Every Saturday? But you told me you were going—""Shopping." She stacked the bowls into the sink and turned on the faucet."You don't like shopping with me anyway, so you never asked to come along."Every Saturday, rain or shine, I hadn't gone once.We set out at 7:00 am on Saturday.It was an hour-and-a-half drive into the mountains.The cemetery was halfway up the mountain, lined with pine and cypress trees. The morning mist still clung to the ground.Dad's grave was in the third row, toward the right.His name and the dates of his birth and death were carved into a gray headstone.The vase in front of the stone
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"Let me get this straight. You actually bought it?"Mason cornered me at my cubicle first thing the next morning.He held his thermos, the tea leaves floating on the surface of the water.I gave him a rough breakdown of what was in the letter."A single letter, and you just let it go?" He scoffed. "Leon, this is a classic move. Once they're caught red-handed, they turn around and play the sympathy card, using family sentiment to shut you up. In my third marriage, I caught—""Mason.""I caught my ex in the car with her personal trainer, and she fell to her knees crying that the guy was just her cousin. Guess what happened—""Mason, stop."He froze."I checked the handwriting."I pulled something out of my pocket.It was an old postcard. The front showed a scenic view of the city square, and the back featured crooked ballpoint writing."Leon, I had some business in the city and passed by the square you mentioned. Sending you a postcard. From Dad."I had received this postcar
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I demanded, "Alice, give me the other half of the paper."By the time I rushed back from my hometown, it was 2:00 am.Pushing the door open, I found the living room completely dark.Alice was sitting on the couch, her knees together, her hands folded neatly in her lap.It looked like she had been waiting in that exact position for hours."You went to see Mom?" she asked."You knew I would.""Yeah.""Then you know what I came to ask."She didn't answer right away.When she switched on the table lamp, the light caught her eyes. They were bloodshot.Not the kind of red from a fresh cry, but the dry, raw kind that was left behind after crying for hours until all the moisture was gone."Sit down first," she said."I won't. Give me the paper.""Leon, listen to me first.""You drugged my milk, sniffed pieces of my dad's clothes in the middle of the night, went to the funeral home every month to swap them out, got my mom to play along with you, and kept me completely in the dark
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