The Masked Stripper is my Wife.
I did slowly, “You are alive, that’s what matters. We will face everything else step by step. Together.”
The door creaked open quietly again, and I turned my head, bracing myself for whoever this was again. But instead, a woman stepped inside, mid-twenties, with t a grocery bag big enough to supply a small army. She smiled, but there was something off about it, stiff like she was forcing it to stay in place.
“Edith, I thought you said you would be here earlier?” Grandma said, frowning the moment she saw her.
“I branched at the mall to get some stuff,” the woman, Edith answered defensively, shifting the bag to her other hand.