The Perfect Wife Walked Away
The main cable, the one that had been holding me for the last — however long it had been — tore apart with a sound like a cannon shot, and I felt the support vanish from above me in an instant.
I fell.
Not far. The secondary cable — the stabilization line the security team had attached to the winch — caught me after a drop of maybe two meters, and the sudden arrest slammed me downward against the harness with a force that drove the air from my lungs. But the angle — the angle was wrong. The secondary cable had been attached to a different point than the original, and when the original snapped, my geometry shifted. My body swung outward, away from the bridge, away from David, into open air, a