I expected fury. I expected shattered plates, slammed doors, maybe even violence. What I got was worse.
Sarah didn’t yell. She didn’t throw anything. She just cried silently — tears running down her face in the fading light. Then she stood up, walked inside, and closed the bedroom door. Not slammed. Just… closed. Softly. Finally.
The Silence
In the days that followed, Sarah barely spoke. She went to work, came home, made dinner, and moved through the house like a ghost. When she did look at me, her eyes were hollow — not angry, just vacant. The silence between us was unbearable, heavier than any argument.
I apologized constantly. I offered to leave, to go to therapy, to do anything that might help her heal. She said almost nothing. Just nodded sometimes, eyes distant. I started searching for apartments, preparing for the inevitable divorce.
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