The Kept Wife's Awakening

Summary

I was the charity case, the poor student sponsored by the wealthy Sterling family.

At twenty-two, I married Carter Sterling because I was pregnant.

Carter was a notoriously severe germaphobe.

He used separate serving spoons at dinner and refused to kiss me on the lips in bed.

He even found it repulsive to drink from a glass I had used.

But at a party recently, I watched him intercept a drink for his childhood sweetheart, his "one who got away," downing the very glass she had just sipped from to save her from drinking too much.

In that moment, I knew our marriage was over.