Rain in the Haze of Years

Summary

The third time my wife, Victoria, got pregnant with her lover’s child, my reaction was unnervingly calm.

I even had the leisure to admire the wedding photos they’d taken behind my back.

Victoria’s brow was furrowed, her voice a blade of ice as she subtly shielded her lover, Alex.

“I know I promised you I wouldn’t have children with anyone else.”

“But Alex has been with me for years. The first two abortions took a serious toll on my body. This child… we have to keep it.”

“If anything happens to him, Liam,” she warned, her eyes like chips of stone, “even you won’t be spared.”