“Say something, Natalie.”Joseph suppressed his anger.It was ridiculous.I was the one who should have been furious.Just like the day I exposed his affair with Monica, after a brief moment of shock, anger had replaced his guilt.He flew into a rage, accused me of betraying his trust, and of invading his privacy.It was as if he were the one who had been cheated on, and I had become the woman who stayed out all night, who crawled into bed with younger men.“What do you want me to say?” I asked as I looked up at him.“Should I grow numb, hand you a divorce agreement, take nothing, and wait for the day you realize Monica is nothing special, then remember me during some night when you’re drunk, clutching your stomach in pain, thinking about the hangover brew I used to make for you?”“I don’t drink,” he said calmly.“Of course you don’t drink,” I replied. “And I never got up in the middle of the night to make you a hangover drink.”I forced a smile, one so strained that tears
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