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Her Boss’s Wife Came To Me And Said: "Your Wife Stole My Husband. Forget Her. I’ll Take You...

Her Boss’s Wife Came To Me And Said: "Your Wife Stole My Husband. Forget Her. I’ll Take You... Three in the morning is also when memory gets loud. I stood there long after Elena’s footsteps faded upstairs, the coffee maker hissing like it knew it had almost betrayed me. My reflection in the dark window looked older than I felt—shoulders slumped, eyes dulled by routine and compromise. I shut the machine off and sat at the kitchen table instead, letting the silence settle. Twenty-two years is a long time to share a life with someone. Long enough to know the rhythms of their lies. Elena had always been driven. That was one of the things I loved about her back when we were both young and broke and convinced ambition alone could carry us anywhere. She climbed quickly at Meridian Advertising, stayed later every year, brought home stories about “mentors” and “networking dinners.” I told myself that was just the cost of success. I told myself I was being supportive. I told myself a lot of things. What I hadn’t told myself was how often she stopped asking about my day. Or how her phone never left her hand anymore. Or how the lake house suddenly entered our vocabulary—casually, innocently—long before I ever knew there was a we excluded from it. I didn’t sleep that night. I sat there until dawn, replaying her whispering voice, the way she said Richard’s name like it tasted good in her mouth. By the time the sun came up, I wasn’t angry yet. I was something worse: clear. At seven-thirty, Elena came downstairs in her robe, hair pulled back, face already composed. She paused when she saw me still at the table. “You’re up early,” she said lightly. “Didn’t sleep,” I replied. She poured herself coffee—my coffee—without offering me any. “Big day. I might be late again tonight.” I looked at her then. Really looked. At the woman I’d raised two kids with. The woman who once cried in my arms when her first promotion fell through. The woman who now practiced deception like a second language.