Abandoned by my husband, claimed by his brother
My voice was harden “And tell me, why exactly are you here? Wasn’t this supposed to be a father and son meeting, not a meeting with an alleycat?”
Her lips stiffened.
Before she could retort, Delano’s cheerful voice rang out. “Father!”
And then they entered. My brother, his daughter, and his wife.
Her.
Miriam looked composed, the perfect wife, the perfect mother. But when she sat across from me, the glass cup trembled in her hand as she gulp some water, I saw the crack in her perfect image. Her knuckles whitened as she set the cup down. Her smile to Delano was brittle, lips quivering at the corners.
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