Endless love
From an impossible love.
"Martha, my darling. I miss you so much."
The perfect life he had known collapsed right before his eyes. His mother was an outgoing, talkative woman, many considered her inconvenient, but he never imagined she was an adulteress. James had few memories of his father, a man of few words and always very busy, from whom he inherited his love of reading.
He kept stopping to read and reread those sentences, but quickly put them back in the false bottom of the jewelry box when his wife's high-pitched voice approached the door.