Chapter 5 - The Perfect Marriage CracksThat evening, the house felt different.
Dinner was served, but nobody touched the food.
The wife sat across from her husband, trying to maintain her usual composure.
“You're really going to let one incident destroy everything?”
He looked at her.
“One incident?”
She hesitated.
He continued.
“How many times has this happened?”
Silence.
He didn't need an answer.
He remembered the nanny becoming quieter over the past few months.
He remembered his wife suddenly complaining about everything.
He remembered the nervous way the nanny would apologize before anyone had even accused her of anything.
The pieces were beginning to fit.
His stomach tightened.
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He had been so busy protecting his family financially that he had failed to notice what was happening inside his own home.
That realization hurt more than anger.
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