Suffocating In Your Forbidden Freedom

Summary

On our first wedding anniversary, my wife, Madeline, was two hours late.

When she finally walked through the door, I spotted a jagged, dark red stain on the collar of her white silk blouse. It looked like marinara—messy, careless, and intimate.

I didn’t need to be a detective to know what it meant. The ghost from her past, the man she’d never quite managed to exorcise from her heart, was back in town.

Sensing the weight of my gaze, Madeline didn’t offer an apology. Instead, her face hardened into a mask of practiced indignation.