The Perfect Wife Walked Away
My last conscious words, spoken to a woman who couldn't answer, spoken with whatever fragile thread of voice I had left after the water had taken everything else.
I tried to open my eyes.
They wouldn't open. Or they did open, but there was nothing to see, just darkness, thick and absolute, the darkness of a body that had shut down its non-essential functions and was running on emergency power.
But I could hear.
Not clearly. Sounds came to me as if through layers of water and cotton; muffled, distorted, fragmented. But they were there.
A heartbeat. Not mine — the rhythm was different, faster, stronger. Close. Very close. As if someone were sitting right next to me, their body near enough that
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