Husband Leaves Pregnant Wife for Influencer Until Parents Deliver Wedding Photo Gift
The blue flame under the pot suddenly flickered, and then the hum of the old refrigerator stopped. The overhead light bulb went dark, plunging the room into the gray dusk of November. Through the window, the streetlights on our road remained bright and yellow, casting long shadows across our yard.
“Mom?” Margot said, her spoon clicking against the metal pot in the dark.
I stood in the dark, my hand still resting on my lower back. The power was not out on our block; the neighboring houses still glowed with warm lights. I walked to the drawer in Evan’s old desk in the hallway, pulling it open until the wood screeched against the frame. My fingers searched the back corner, past the old receipts, until they hit the heavy, cold weight of his grandfather’s gold pocket watch, the one I thought he had taken with him when he left.
The gold watch was sitting in a velvet pouch behind his tax files, left behind in his haste to clear out his clothes.
