When the house fell silent
His wife, once quick to laugh at his clumsy jokes, now looked at him as though he were a stranger renting space in her life.
He pulled out his phone and typed a message to Naledi. His thumb hovered over the “send” button. He wanted comfort, distraction, anything to escape the unbearable silence at home.
But then he thought of Kamo. He thought of his wife’s trembling hands as she folded laundry, the way she kept glancing at him, as if weighing whether to keep believing in him or to finally let go.
With a sigh, Abby deleted the message. For the first time in months, he realized the affair wasn’t a thrill anymore—it was a trap, one that could cost him everything.
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