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\u201cMrs. Bennett, please don\u2019t worry. I\u2019ll make sure your husband is taken care of tonight.\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Vanessa Parker\u2019s voice was almost too calm.<\/p>\n

I had been sitting alone for nearly an hour at a table set for two, watching the ice around a bottle of champagne slowly melt into water.<\/p>\n

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Ethan had ordered that champagne for our anniversary.<\/p>\n

Since the day we married, he had never forgotten the date.<\/p>\n

Until that night.<\/p>\n

It was also the first time his new assistant had ever answered his phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no need for that,\u201d I said. \u201cJust tell me where you are. I\u2019ll come get him myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanessa gave me the name of a quiet Manhattan restaurant, the kind where one dinner could cost what some families spent on groceries for a week.<\/p>\n

The moment I walked inside, I knew things were worse than I had imagined.<\/p>\n

There was no business dinner.<\/p>\n

Only two people sat at the table.<\/p>\n

Ethan\u2019s tie was loose.<\/p>\n

His eyes were glassy from alcohol.<\/p>\n

An empty wineglass sat in front of him.<\/p>\n

Vanessa was close beside him, leaning over his arm while carefully wiping something from his shirt sleeve.<\/p>\n

A waiter approached with hot water and smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes your boyfriend need anything else?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanessa looked directly at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

The silence afterward hurt more than the waiter\u2019s mistake.<\/p>\n

Two years earlier, I had been confident, ambitious, newly graduated, and preparing to continue my education overseas.<\/p>\n

Now I had spent months taking hormones, vitamins, and countless remedies my mother-in-law insisted would help me conceive.<\/p>\n

My face was constantly swollen.<\/p>\n

My body had changed.<\/p>\n

I had abandoned my career to stay beside Ethan while he recovered from injuries caused by an old accident.<\/p>\n

Vanessa, meanwhile, looked like she belonged in a fashion campaign.<\/p>\n

Watching her help him stand, I finally understood why her social media had recently been filled with expensive dinners, bouquets, glasses of wine, and photographs taken inside my husband\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

On the ride home, Ethan rested his head against my shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid my wife come?\u201d he murmured sleepily.<\/p>\n

Once, that question would have softened me.<\/p>\n

Then I smelled roses on his jacket.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t my perfume.<\/p>\n

I moved away.<\/p>\n

That night, my mother-in-law, Diane, practically ordered me to make soup for Ethan\u2019s hangover.<\/p>\n

\u201cA good wife takes care of her husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

While I stirred the soup, my phone vibrated.<\/p>\n

Vanessa had posted something new.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone bruised my heart a little tonight. Tomorrow I\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

I smiled.<\/p>\n

She thought she was playing a game I didn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

She was wrong.<\/p>\n

When I was seven, I watched my father leave my mother for another woman.<\/p>\n

After the divorce, everyone was horrified when I chose to live with him because he had more money.<\/p>\n

Nobody understood why.<\/p>\n

From inside my father\u2019s home, I could slowly help recover some of what my mother had lost.<\/p>\n

I learned very early that crying rarely changes the rules.<\/p>\n

Understanding the rules does.<\/p>\n

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