I slipped a laxative into my husband’s coffee before he left to meet his mistress… and I watched him drink it like he wasn’t swallowing his own shame.
Not the fake trembling of a woman who’d been caught. She shook like someone who had run for blocks with fear biting at her heels. The baby slept against her chest, mouth slightly open, one tiny hand gripping the yellow blanket. Four months old, maybe five. He smelled like milk, baby powder, and rain-soaked streets….
