Ten Years of Lies,That Broke Me A Dying Wife's RevengeChapter 1
Ten years of marriage to Lionel Dickerson.
Our only communication was bank transfers.
Fifty thousand dollars meant he wouldn't be home tonight.
Two hundred thousand meant a three-day business trip.
I kept telling myself it was normal. He was a top surgeon,
held people's lives in his hands. Of course he'd be cold.
The day I was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer, I swallowed the pain and asked if he could have dinner with me.
This time, it wasn't a transfer.
It was a photo.
"Hey sis, Dr. Dickerson's hands are just as steady with bra clasps as they are with a scalpel."
"You take care of his paralyzed parents, I take care of his stress. Fair trade, right?"
I choked back the blood rising in my throat and took a cab to Lionel's private hospital.
Through the crack in the door, I saw him, a man so fastidious he couldn't stand a crease in his coat, burying his face in a female intern's neck.
Wet sounds and heavy breathing tangled together, and every one of them burned through me like acid.
I stood there for a long time. Then I slid my diagnosis report through the gap in the door.
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I stumbled away, half-blind with shock.