CHAPTER 1- THE FRIEND WHO STAYED.

My husband hadn't visited me in four weeks.I checked my phone again.No missed call. No message. Nothing from Jack."Are you going to eat that or just stare at it like it insulted your family?"I turned my head too fast. The room tilted, then settled."Georgina.""Don't sound so shocked. I do visit." She dropped a paper bag on the tray table, grease spots already soaking through the bottom."Onion rings. Don't ask how I got them past the nurse's station. Actually, ask. It's a good story.""Tell me.""I told her I was your sister and you were having a craving. She said sisters don't usually look this different." She pointed between us, her dark hair against my washed-out blonde. "So I said, half-sister. Dramatic family history. She let me through out of pity."I laughed, and it hurt my ribs, and I didn't care.The IV line pulled when I shifted upright. I checked my phone one more time out of habit.Still nothing. Georgina saw it. She saw everything."How was round four?" she asked."L

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CHAPTER 2 - THE CALL SHE HIDES.

Georgina's phone had rang again, the Second time in ten minutes.She didn't look at it.That was the tell. Georgina looked at everything."You're not going to check that?""It's nothing." She was already sliding off the chair, already reaching for her bag."I should let you rest anyway.""You just got here.""I have a thing." She didn't say what thing. She never left a room without telling me exactly where she was going and why, down to the traffic she'd hit on the way.Her hands moved too fast. Bag strap, jacket, phone, bag strap again."Georgina.""What?""Nothing. You just seem—"I didn't finish it. I didn't have the word yet."I'm fine. I'll be quick."She was out the door before I could find one.— GEORGINA —The stairwell smelled like bleach and old coffee. I took it two floors down before I answered, because hospital walls were thinner than people thought."You can't keep calling during visiting hours.""Is she asking questions?" The voice on the other end didn't do small talk

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CHAPTER 3- DISCARDED WIFE.

The porch light was on. It was never on. Jack thought it wasted electricity. There was a car in the driveway I didn't recognise. Low, black, expensive in a way that wasn't Jack's taste. My phone was still in my hand, the unknown number still open on the screen. You should be more careful about whom you trust. I put it away. Whoever sent it could wait. I paid the driver with a hand that wasn't quite steady and let myself in through the side door — the one that didn't creak. "Jack?" Nothing. "Jack, I'm home. I need to talk to you." My own voice sounded far away, like it was coming from the next room instead of my own throat. The hallway was too long. It had never been this long before. Then I heard it. Laughter, upstairs. Low and easy. The kind you only make with someone you're comfortable with. Georgina's laugh. Everything else dropped out. The refrigerator hum. The clock on the wall. Just her laugh, looping, too loud, filling the whole staircase. I told myself there w

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CHAPTER 4 - THE DIVORCE PAPERS

I slept in my car outside a gas station because I didn't know where else to go.The seatbelt buckle dug into my hip every time I shifted. Every hour or so I woke up certain my phone had rung, and every time it hadn't. Just my own pulse, loud enough to fool me.By morning my mouth tasted like metal, and my back had locked into a shape that wasn't mine. I drove to the house anyway, because some stupid, stubborn part of me still believed doors could open twice.The housekeeper let me in without a word, her grip tight on the door handle a beat too long after I'd already passed through.She already knew.Jack was in the study. Coffee in hand. Dressed for work like today was a normal Tuesday and not the morning after."Can we talk? Alone."He glanced past me, checking for Beatrice, for Georgina, for anyone who might make this harder for him. Finding no one, he nodded once."I can forgive it," I said, before he could sit down, before he could build a wall out of silence. "The affair. Georgin

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CHAPTER 5- THE LIE

I sat in the car outside longer than I meant to, engine ticking as it cooled, every light in the house already on like someone was expecting me.I only came for what was left of my things. A few boxes. My mother's necklace. The albums Jack never wanted on the mantel because they made the house look — his words — too lived-in.Then I got out, before I could talk myself into driving away.The front door wasn't locked. Nobody in that house expected me to come back.Jack was waiting in the entryway."You can stop pretending," he said."Pretending what, Jack?""That you don't know why I stopped loving you.""I don't know why." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "I've spent two days trying to figure out what I did, and I keep coming up with nothing, Jack."He pulled his phone from his pocket instead of answering and swiped it awake.A photograph. Me, standing close to a man in a white coat, our heads bent toward each other outside a hospital entrance."Who is that?""You tell me."He s

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All Chapters of HIS DISCARDED WIFE : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

CHAPTER 1- THE FRIEND WHO STAYED.

CHAPTER 2 - THE CALL SHE HIDES.

CHAPTER 3- DISCARDED WIFE.

CHAPTER 4 - THE DIVORCE PAPERS

CHAPTER 5- THE LIE