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Holly’s rage had caught hi her voice, during their e They’d never quarrelled, not even at the end So at hiirl expression, he’d had all he could do to keep fro He could have dealt with that, with so crockery

But there’d been none of that Holly’s silence had damn near killed him That, and the pained look in her eyes

‘What do you want from me?’ he’d said to her once Okay He hadn’t said it, he’d shouted it

‘If you don’t know,’ she’d said in a broken whisper, ‘I can’t tell you’

That was the night he’d finally ads and moved out, and the lawyers had taken it froain

His ex-wife How co that?

Now it turned out that Holly had just been waiting for the chance to tell him off And tell hial posture, when she’d walked away

Holly had changed, all right Changed a lot

The Holly he’d irl who’d spent her life in a world of fairy-tale privilege And he’d taken her away from all that Holly the Princess had tied on an apron and become Holly the Housewife

At first, he’d thought it eet After a while, he’d realized there was nothing sweet about watching his beautiful wife transfor he was the cause

She’d baked She’d cooked She’d made curtains for their hovel of an apartment Curtains, by God, when she’d probably never so much as sewn a button on a blouse in her entire life And the way she’d stood at the door each night, those first fewsmile as he ca houses for rich people who’d never done a thing in their lives to deserve the her face for his kiss as if he weren’t dirty, and smelly, and her old man’s worst dream come true…

Not that her housewife act had lasted Just about the ti a haold at the end of the rainbow, Holly had coht, she’d sulked No That was the wrong word She hadn’t sulked She’d seemed…hurt As if he’d so orking his ass off to give her the life she deserved