The Wife Who Returned
Who'd blamed me for an infection he'd given me and made me feel dirty and ashamed when I'd been nothing but faithful.
That memory surfaced suddenly, sharp and vicious. The burning, the pain, the humiliating doctor's visit. Adrian's face when I told him, the disgust in his voice: "How could you be so careless? Who else have you been with?" The accusation of infidelity. The suggestions about my hygiene. The way he'd made me apologize, made me feel like I'd betrayed him.
It had been him all along. Him sleeping with Maribel, with God knows who else, and then coming home to me and acting like I was the dirty one.