“You did?”
“Yes.”
She cried harder.
“I told him never to do it again.”
“So what happened?”
“He apologized.”
“He cried.”
“He said he’d never loved anyone the way he loved me.”
I stared at her in disbelief.
“He said he couldn’t control his feelings anymore.”
She covered her face with both hands.
“And eventually…”
“I believed him.”
—
I wanted to hate her.
Part of me still did.
But another part…
The older sister inside me…
Could see exactly how carefully Daniel had manipulated her.
He hadn’t seduced her in a single night.
He had spent months earning her trust.
Separating her from reality.
Convincing her that I had already stopped loving him.
By the time the affair began…
She believed she wasn’t stealing someone’s husband.
She believed she was rescuing a lonely man trapped in a broken marriage.
It was still wrong.
Terribly wrong.
But it was no longer as simple as I had believed.
—
“There is one more thing,” Lily whispered.
Her hands shook as she reached into her bag again.
This time she removed a folded piece of paper.
“I found this after you left.”
