Cheaters Talk Too Loud
Sorevia City, Darmoria
One of my wife's so-called friends practically shouted across the table, "So, you got knocked up by your side piece. What's the game plan?"
Vanessa Joplin calmly set a plate of steak in front of me.
"We always said if one of us cheated, we'd vanish from each other's lives for good," she said, all sugar-sweet. "I'm not letting that happen. So yeah—I've been careful. Once the baby's here, the only dad anyone'll see is Glen."
After that, she signed that she'd love me forever—totally missing the red burn around my eyes.
She didn't know I'd gotten my hearing back a week ago.
Didn't know I already knew about the guy on the side.
And she definitely didn't know I'd bought a ticket north.
Seven days. Once the paperwork cleared, I'd be gone.
No noise. No goodbye. Just erased.