All Chapters of My Ex husband left me to die, Now I watch him burn : Chapter 71 - Chapter 73

The afternoon sun filtered lazily through the tall, sheer linen curtains of Lisa’s airy living room, casting a warm, golden-amber haze over the polished mahogany table where the two women sat. Around them, the apartment hummed with a quiet, aggravating domesticity—the slow, metronomic ticking of a wall clock, the soft, rhythmic drone of the refrigerator from the adjoining open-plan kitchen, and the occasional sharp chime of an email notification from the counter. To anyone else, it was a sanctuary of afternoon leisure. But to Susan, wrapped in a sudden, suffocating bubble of dread, the cozy atmosphere felt entirely surreal, mockingly indifferent to the rising panic threatening to tear her chest open. They were nursing their second glasses of crisp, mineral-rich Pinot Grigio, slowly and lazily scrolling through the digital photo album from Lisa’s recent vacation in Santorini. "Oh, you have to see this one from Oia," Lisa murmured, a soft, affectionate smile touching her lips as she