THINGS DID NOT GET any better during the drive back to Carlton Bay. Helen insisted on bringing up Kate’s marriage to Evan. “Can we please talk about this later?” Kate asked, concerned about how Mark would have been feeling.
“You have made a sacred vow, Kate. A vow to your husband and a vow to the Lord. You don’t get to just wake up and decide you’re over it,” Helen persisted.
“I did not just wake up and decide I was over it.” Kate stared out the window, longing to be back in her house.
“Kate, ang pag-aasawa ay hindi biro. Di tulad ng kanin na iluluwa lang pag napaso,” Helen quoted a Filipino proverb.
Marriage is not a joke; it’s not like rice that you can just spit out when it’s too hot. Kate had heard it enough times growing up. She was educated in a Catholic school and was taught all
