“I didn’t know that.”
“We argued constantly.”
“We argued sometimes, Everett. That’s not the same as being separated.”
Nina looked at him.
“You told me she’d accepted everything.”
“I thought eventually she would.”
Beatrice shook her head.
“You keep describing what you thought people would do. What did you actually tell them?”
He didn’t answer.
I pushed the renovation receipts toward him.
“Why did you encourage me to spend my savings on this house if you were planning another wedding?”
“I wasn’t planning it then.”
“But you were seeing Nina.”
He nodded.
“And you kept discussing having children with me.”
His eyes filled with tears.
“I didn’t know what I wanted.”
“Then why did you keep making promises?”
“Because I was scared of losing everything.”
There it was.
He hadn’t kept our marriage going because he believed in it.
He’d kept it going because he didn’t want to lose the comfort of our life together before securing another future.
