Chapter 6 - The House of LiesHome no longer felt like home.
Every photograph on the wall looked like evidence.
Every family vacation became a question.
Every kiss in an old photograph suddenly felt staged.
That night, Daniel thought I was asleep.
I heard him talking in the hallway.
His voice was low.
"She knows about the baby."
Silence.
Then:
"No. She doesn't know everything."
My heart began pounding.
"We need to be careful."
Another pause.
"Get rid of the phone."
I froze.
"And delete the files."
Files?
My hands trembled.
"All of them."
He ended the call.
I slipped back into bed before he entered the room.
Minutes later, he lay beside me.
His breathing became slow.
I stared into the darkness.
Then I reached for his phone.
I entered our anniversary.
Wrong.
My birthday.
Wrong.
Noah's birthday.
Wrong.
He had changed the password.
That tiny detail told me more than any confession could have.
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He was preparing for something.
And he was preparing without me.
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