that I was preparing. Not even while you were sleeping by my side. Not when you told me every morning that you loved me.
I didn’t know how to tell you.
So you decided that lying was easier.
Daniel rubbed his face.
I was going to tell you when I came home.
Emily suddenly looked at him.
Something happened between them.
Something secret.
I noticed.
“What exactly were you going to tell me?”
Daniel was paralyzed.
Emily whispered:
— Daniel...
“No,” I said. “Tell me.
He seemed completely defeated.
I was going to ask you for a divorce.
The words struck me harder than I expected.
But somehow I already knew there was something else.
Then I saw a folder on the hotel desk.
At the top was printed the logo of a real estate company.
I walked over and opened it.
Daniel pounced on me.
Laura, no.
Too late.
Inside was a rental contract.
A two bedroom apartment.
Signed six days earlier.