OneThe first person to tell me my husband was coming was the funeral director.“He is on his way, Mrs. Blackwell,” he said gently, as though those words could make the empty space beside me less painful.I nodded. My fingers were wrapped around the small photograph of my father that rested on the table beside his coffin. In it, Dad was smiling, his silver hair slightly untidy, his eyes bright with the sort of mischief that had survived even his worst days.He had asked for Liam twice before he died.The first time, he had wanted to thank him for promising to arrange the treatment that might have bought him more time. The second time, he had simply wanted to see his daughter's husband standing beside her. I had lied both times. I told Dad that Liami was busy with an important meeting and would come as soon as he could.Dad had smiled weakly and told me not to trouble myself.That was the last kindness he gave me: pretending he did not know I was being abandoned.five years of marriage
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