My husband invited his boss to our house, but just before he arrived, he looked at me with disgust and whispered, “Stay in the bedroom. I’m ashamed to have you seen like this. If my boss sees you, you’ll ruin my promotion.”

asking for a divorce.”

Alejandro’s jaw tightened as he tried to regain control. “Chloe misunderstood the context of those conversations—”

“Did she misunderstand when you slept with her?”

Silence.

“Did she misunderstand the lease applications for apartments you were looking at together?”

Alejandro looked away and rubbed the back of his neck. “It was a relationship. Yes.”

A sharp ache moved through Mariana’s chest, but there was no surprise left. “And last night? When you told me you were in meetings with Sergio?”

“We had dinner!” he snapped. “I wasn’t