I felt something inside me turn cold.
“What are you talking about?”
He shrugged.
“Kate and I are together.”
“I’m your wife.”
He looked at me as if I were the one making the situation uncomfortable.
“For the past few years, you’ve been more of a housekeeper to me than a wife.”
Kate laughed.
That
laugh hurt almost more than his words.
I turned around to leave.
And that was when I saw John.
He was standing behind me.
One look at his face told me he had heard everything.
“Sarah, don’t go.”
“John, I can’t stay here.”
He looked at Mike for a moment.
Then back at me.
“Stay for five more minutes. Your husband still has no idea how this evening is going to end.”
I looked at Mike.
He was still wearing that confident smile.
But a few minutes later, there would
be nothing left of it.