บททั้งหมดของ The Wife He Never Married: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 4

JUNEThe first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Rick.He was asleep on his stomach, one arm stretched across my side of the bed like even in sleep he expected to find me there. Morning light spilled through the curtains, soft gold sliding over his bare shoulders, over the silver strands beginning to appear at his temples.I tried not to think about it, but I did so anyway.Ten years since we started with nothing but a tiny apartment, unpaid bills, and promises whispered against exhausted mouths at two in the morning.Now he was the CEO of a company people talked about on television. We lived in a house so big I still occasionally lost things inside it. Angel attended one of the best schools in the city. We had staff, investments, and stability.We had a life.And somehow, after all this time, I still loved watching him sleep. I smiled to myself and carefully slipped out of bed so I wouldn’t wake him.The floor was cold beneath my feet as I tied my robe around my waist and headed

JUNEI pushed the front door open slowly and stepped inside the house that had once felt like the safest place in the world. Now it felt unfamiliar and cold, like I was walking through a stranger’s life.The silence pressed against my ears as I dropped my bag beside the couch and stood there staring blankly ahead.Memories hit me one after another so fast it hurt.I remembered Rick’s mother trembling with fever while I stayed awake for three nights straight taking care of her, his sister crying over anatomy textbooks while I sat beside her for hours tutoring her because she wanted to go into medicine too, and Angel curled against my chest after nightmares.I brought her lunches at school, did her laundry, and attended her doctor appointments, parent teacher meetings, birthdays, Christmases and even family dinners.Ten years. I'd spent ten years of giving and giving until I had nothing left of myself.A broken laugh escaped my throat when I finally understood why Rick never wanted anot