When my husband died two months ago in a car accident, the world didn’t just stop—it tilted. Nothing felt stable anymore. Every corner of our house held a memory.
Every quiet moment echoed with things I would never get to say. Last week, I finally worked up the courage to clean out his car. It had been sitting in the driveway since the funeral, untouched.
I kept telling myself I wasn’t ready. But bills had to be handled. Insurance paperwork had to be filed.
Life, cruelly, kept moving. I opened the passenger door and inhaled the faint scent of his cologne. My chest tightened.
I started with the glove compartment, then the console. Old receipts. Sunglasses.
A half-empty water bottle. When I reached under the passenger seat to retrieve a crumpled napkin, my fingers brushed against something leather. A wallet.
It wasn’t his. My pulse quickened as I pulled it out. It was small and feminine, soft brown leather.
I opened it slowly, already feeling a strange dread crawl up my spine. Inside was a woman’s driver’s license. Credit cards.
And tucked into the clear photo sleeve—a picture that made my stomach drop. It was my husband. He had his arm around a woman I didn’t recognize.
They were standing close together, smiling at the camera. Comfortable. Familiar.
My hands started to shake. Was he having an affair? The question slammed into me with a force that stole my breath.
How long had this been going on? Was this why he’d occasionally come home late from work? Why he sometimes seemed distracted?
The grief I had been carrying suddenly tangled itself with something darker. Anger. Betrayal.
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