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My husband slapped me in the middle of our flagship store, and the woman he had been sleeping with actually smiled. Nathan thought the humiliation would break me, because for eleven years he had watched me forgive, adjust, and make excuses for him. Instead, I took off my wedding ring, placed it on the marble counter, and said, “My lawyer will contact you about my share of the company.” The smile disappeared from his face so fast that I knew my worst suspicion was true.
My mother-in-law wrapped decorative cords around my swollen belly and tightened them before Christmas dinner because she said carrying ten babies had made me indecently enormous. The cords pressed across inflamed stretch marks until faint red stains appeared on my maternity blouse, while my husband collected bets on how long I could remain standing. His mistress wore my prescribed support belt and laughed whenever I struggled to breathe normally. Then my husband’s grandmother entered with the hospital receipt, examined the missing belt around the mistress’s waist, and asked why equipment purchased for a high-risk patient had been returned under her grandson’s name for cash…