Mitchell lay on her side of the bed, spine curved away from Harris, listening to the slow but steady breath of a man who had given her everything except that which she actually needed. Nearly four years married. A house in one of the quietest, most well kept neighborhoods with gated entry, high walls, polished hardwood floors, and cars that never saw rough roads. Harris was handsome, generous, reliable, and well respected. Just exactly the kind of husband families hoped their daughters would find. And yet, no matter how she tried to bend her heart to fit the shape of his, it always slipped away, pulling her toward someone else entirely. Jake — Harris’s younger half brother. He had been there from almost the start. The affair began barely twelve months after the wedding, born from empty hours and silence where warmth should have been. At first she told herself it was temporary, a reaction, something she’d outgrow but it outgrew her instead. Stretching through years, and turning from
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