The Perfect Wife Walked Away
The composed, well-groomed exterior was fracturing now, cracks spreading through the mask like stress fractures in glass.
"I came here to bring Camilla back," he said. "But I also came here to… Alice, we can fix this. We can undo it. The divorce isn't final yet — there's a waiting period, a reconsideration window. We can go back. We can be a family again. You, me, Camilla, our new baby. We can be the family we were supposed to be."
He stepped closer. His eyes were searching my face, looking for something. Perhaps a flicker of the woman he had married, a remnant of the love we once shared, a sign that the door he had closed was not locked.