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“You are not the only one who has grown bored with the setup, but I would have done nothing about it which I am sure you think rown inured toripped right out of her chest “I never said I was bored”

“But I aesture that ie meant that little to hiive you a divorce, but as I said…it will have to wait on ine?”

“You want a divorce?” she asked, that portion of his words the only ones that registered with any real impact

This orse than any scenario she could have predicted She’d thought it was very possible he ht accept her solution with an equanimity that would hurt, but she had never envisioned he would actually welco married to her

“You are beautiful, Therese, but amore than a pretty face and impeccable table ether Once you started turning erously low As I said, I would have stuck it out because once I e I do not actually want”

“You don’t want to behim to verify his words

“Why so surprised? You feel the sa ceased to function on an analytical level

“And you did not even have the strength of character to stick it out,” he said, treating her words like a confirht there was rief I do not feel”

“But earlier…”

“I allowedto what I really wanted”

Feeling sick to her storief, Therese lurched up fro left to say”

“Nothing that I could want to hear, no”

She nodded jerkily, aony the hu to beat and si internally from that pain on another

Claudio watched his wife stuinal seat and wanted to hit soht? She was the one who had asked for a divorce She was the one who had found someone else

And she’d wanted to tell hi the details could soht