6
The Shadow Knows
The next morning at the office, I was stopped by the thought that nothing in my life was what it seemed to be. We'd been married for almost a year. My wife and I were apparently both doing mating dances around other partners, if not actually breaking any vows as yet. And my employers, far from being the high-minded do-gooders they seemed, were somehow aiding and abetting the pharmaceutical industry in a large-scale coverup of a dangerous health risk.
Did she fall in love with me and then decide to marry? Or did she want to marry someone and then decided she might as well love me?
Do I want this job because I lucked into it, know I can fake it, and worry I won't be lucky again? Or have I simply failed upward to my level of incompetence, as I might do just as easily an
