The Wife's Reckoning
Plans.
I closed my eyes and let the weight of it land. Twenty years. A marriage, a son, a home, late nights supporting his dreams, medical conferences skipped because his agency needed the capital more, years of believing love meant sacrifice. And somewhere in the middle of that life, my husband had meticulously built another one. It wasn't accidental, and it wasn't impulsive. It was methodical, structured enough to combine their names, desperate enough to spend Liam's future, and stable enough to prepare for a child who hadn't even entered the world yet.
My phone vibrated on the desk. A message from Marcus.