dishonesty.
I didn’t want to become the kind of person who searched for hidden meanings in every phone call or unexplained absence.
So I stopped asking about the restaurant.
I stopped mentioning the woman.
I tried to return to the life we had before.
But something had changed.
I no longer believed that my husband’s explanations were automatically true simply because I wanted them to be.
And that loss of confidence would eventually become impossible to ignore.
Chapter Four: Emma Knew More Than I Realized
Emma was twenty-two when she
