I said nothing, waiting for him to finish..
He looked at me deeply. “Lily, you have to apologize to her
For a moment, everything around me felt unreal.
It was as if the man in front of me wasn’t Aiden. He wasn’t the person I fell for in college, and he certainly wasn’t the husband I was married to for ten years.
Out of nowhere, I burst out laughing.
It turned out that when a person was utterly speechless, they really did laugh.
He closed his eyes for a moment, concealing some unreadable emotion. Even his voice softened. “You probably
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think she’s just some woman trying to take your place, but you’re wrong. Everything between us has been respectful.
never
me,
hurt
you.
She
even told
me
from and she “She
never meant to wanted
to be anything
more considerate of you and to give you more money for the household expenses because she knows how much you’ve sacrificed to raise Chloe.
“But you’ve hurt her deeply. She’s young, and now she has scars on her face. Do you know how cruel that is for a young woman? And then, the other day, you humiliated her in front of everyone without knowing the full story.
“My coworkers told me that after she went home, she was so devastated she nearly… did something reckless. Lily, no matter how you look at it, you owe her an apology.”
I tilted my head, looking at him. “And how exactly do you want me to apologize?”
He was silent for a few seconds before saying, “I’ll call her. You just have to say a few words. That’ll put an end to this.”
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