“We missed you, too,” I smiled back, keeping my voice completely calm.
That night, I said absolutely nothing about what I had heard. For six full days, I remained entirely silent, but I watched his every move closely. Once I knew what to look for, the little details of his betrayal became impossible to miss. Liam started taking his phone into the bathroom whenever he showered, changed his passcode, and became intensely protective of his text messages. Every time he claimed he had another late shift at the office, he sprayed expensive cologne before stepping out the door. The excuses that once seemed completely ordinary now sounded blatantly suspicious to my ears.
Then something else happened the very next evening after I overheard the call. Liam sat down at the kitchen table and suggested that I consider staying home longer instead of returning to work as planned.
“Childcare is just so expensive these days,” Liam told me with a concerned look. “It might make more sense for you to stay home with Hailey full-time.”
