One Night Stand With My Ex’s Uncle
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I struggled to keep my voice steady, to hide how thoroughly Marcus's deception had shattered me.
Sleep offered no refuge. In my dreams, Jack Simpson's face loomed over me, our wedding night playing out in excruciating detail-his indifference, my loneliness, the hollow feeling of realizing I'd married a stranger. I woke gasping for air, sheets twisted around my legs, my nightgown plastered to my skin with sweat. My head throbbed mercilessly.
I dragged myself to the bathroom, where the mirror reflected a stranger— eyes glassy with fever, skin ashen.
_Perfect. Physical misery to match the emotional kind._
Somehow I managed to shower and pull on a cashmere turtleneck, though each movement sent
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