“No, we can’t.” I stood and placed the folder back into the drawer. “I’m not unpacking,” I said. My heart was breaking, but my head was suddenly very clear.
“What?” His voice cracked. “I’ll take some of my things now and collect the rest in the morning.” I stepped around the desk and headed out into the hallway. He followed me.
“You’re overreacting. People have pasts, Sarah! It’s a divorce, not a crime!”
I stopped and looked back at him.
“It’s not the divorce,” I said. “It’s not even the money. It’s the fact that you never told me about it.
You waited until I was ‘all in’ so it would be harder for me to leave.”
“No… I just. I love you! Please don’t leave over this.
I understand that you’re angry, but there’s got to be a way we can move past it.”
I walked away. His footsteps boomed on the floor as he hurried up behind me. He stopped in front of me and got down on his knees.
“Please, Sarah. Don’t go. I love you.”
“I can’t stay, not after this.
You lied. That’s not partnership, Ben.” I walked around him and picked up the smallest box. “That’s control.”
I didn’t say anything else to him.
I just walked out the front door. I cried as I walked to my car, but mostly, I just felt a strange, cold relief. Was the main character right or wrong?
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