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A few days later, he asked me to meet him at a restaurant just off campus.Because of a last-minute change to my class schedule, I showed up almost two hours late.By the time I got there, the restaurant was nearly empty.After I sat down, I kept apologizing and explaining what had happened.Ethan stayed as gentle as always. He smiled and said, "It's fine."The way he looked, it was as if nothing had ever come between us.If not for the number above his head.The food had already been served, and it looked stone cold.Ethan wanted to ask the waiter to take it back and warm it up.I said no."Let's just get to the point."After everything these past days, I was exhausted."I signed the divorce agreement." Ethan slid the papers beside him across the table.So I wouldn't have to go through the long court process after all.I let out a breath of relief and put the agreement in my bag.The next second, the number above his head hit zero and vanished, as if it had never been t
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The one thing I hadn't seen coming in all of this was Ethan.He agreed to an interview and admitted his mistake in front of the media.On camera, he said, "My wife was furious with me over this."She did the core work on that paper. I wronged her."I hope she can forgive me."When he finished, he looked into the camera.It felt like his gaze went straight through the screen and landed on me.He looked haggard, and his eyes were dull.Looking at him, I couldn't help thinking about our seven years of marriage.I never imagined it would end this miserably.More messages from Mom came in.She said Piper was threatening to take her own life, and the whole house was in an uproar.—Come back and talk some sense into Piper.—You're the only one this family can count on now.—Mara, you're my only daughter.I didn't answer a single one.If she really thought of me as her daughter, she never would have said any of this to me.When I got to campus, the colleagues I knew looked at
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My first few days in Ashford were the most relaxed I'd felt in ages.New messages kept pouring into my phone.I ignored all of them except Nina's.On the phone, Nina told me Ethan had come looking for her.The project team's roster had been posted publicly before we left. I never expected Ethan to have no idea where I'd gone.Clearly, all his attention lately had been on Piper."I told him to hurry up and sign the divorce papers, and he tore them up right in front of me."I frowned as I listened. This was going to be a real headache.Sure enough, a few days later, Ethan showed up in Ashford.The dark circles under his eyes were heavy, but he hadn't forgotten to shave.On instinct, I looked above his head. Only ten percent was left.I didn't say anything. I just led him into a cafe on the street.Ethan sat across from me. "Ever since you left, I've been trying to figure out what could make you leave without a word and walk out on me with divorce papers, but I can't."Is it
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Ethan's face darkened. "You're throwing our marriage away to spite me?"We'll talk when you've calmed down. I'll stay in a campus guest room for a while."With that, he turned and walked out. Not once had he asked why I'd collapsed and ended up in the hospital. He hadn't even glanced at the gauze taped over the IV site on my hand.Nina swore at his back. "Screw you!""Nina," I said softly.She looked at me."I might need your help drawing up the divorce papers."I wasn't discharged until the third day.When I opened the front door, the first thing I saw was a stack of PhD application materials on the entryway table. Every page was covered in Ethan's meticulous notes.I heard sounds from the bedroom and thought Ethan was home.I was just about to talk to him about the divorce when, to my surprise, Piper stepped out instead.She was wearing my pajamas and my slippers.The cute bear-print pajamas were part of a matching couple's set Ethan had bought me.It had been our sevent
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Ethan didn't come home that night. He only sent a text saying Mom had asked him to stay over.I glanced at it, deleted it, and packed my bags that same night.If he wanted to say the apartment was his, then I wouldn't take a thing. I'd leave clean.The next morning, in the middle of teaching, the constant anxiety and the dizziness from my overloaded sense of smell finally knocked me down.I collapsed at the front of the lecture hall.When I came to, my best friend, Nina Grant, was sitting by my hospital bed peeling an apple.The moment she saw my eyes open, she couldn't hold back her anger. "I called Ethan half an hour after they brought you in. He sounded all worried, but that was two hours ago, and there's still no sign of him."I leaned back against the bed. My tongue was numb. Even when she held the apple to my lips, I couldn't taste it."He and I are about to split up."Nina was stunned. "Why?"As my best friend, she'd seen our entire love story from start to finish."D
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At dinner, Mom kept piling food onto Piper's and Ethan's plates.Piper had one foot propped carelessly on the edge of her chair, her shorts riding up to show off a pair of dazzlingly pale legs.I frowned. "Put your leg down. That's not how you sit at the table."The words had barely left my mouth when Mom snapped at me. "Stop acting like you're her teacher. It's not a big deal."Ethan put a piece of meat on my plate. "I read online that sitting like that is a sign of poor circulation. Don't give her a hard time."Piper nodded eagerly. "Exactly. Mara's so mean."They played off each other perfectly, and somehow I ended up looking like the unreasonable one.For years, Mom had favored Piper and her father, Frank. I'd long since gotten used to it.But tonight was the first time Ethan had taken their side against me.Mom turned to Piper. "Your dorm is so rundown you can't rest properly. Why don't you move in with your sister? The guest room's empty anyway, and she can cook for you.
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