The scent of Mark’s coffee,the familiar clutter of their shared life it all felt like a foreign country, a place she no longer belonged. She was a ghost in her own home, a spy in her own marriage.Mark was a blur of cheerful domesticity. He asked about her “retreat,” his eyes bright with genuine interest, and she fed him a stream of well-rehearsed lies, each one a small, sharp stab of guilt. He told her about his weekend, a boring tale of grocery shopping and a football game with his friends, and she nodded and smiled, her mind a million miles away, in a cold, sterile mansion, on her knees, on a stepladder, in a bed that wasn’t hers.That night, he tried to touch her. They were in bed, the lights off, the city lights casting a soft glow through the window. He rolled over, his hand sliding onto her hip, his touch warm, familiar, and utterly repulsive.“I missed you,” he whispered, his voice thick with sleep and desire.Emma’s entire body went rigid. A cold, sickening dread washed over
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