“Where have I been?” she shot back immediately, her voice rising with sharp defiance. “You suddenly noticed your wife had been missing? Did you even try looking for me? Did you even pay any attention to me? And even if I had a lover, who can blame me? What is a woman supposed to do when her husband never fulfills his marital duties?”
Her words hit me like a bag of concrete dropped straight onto my chest, and I felt the rage rise instantly, hot and uncontrollable.
“Sapphire! Enough! Watch your tongue and watch what you say to me,” I snapped, my voice cutting through the room like steel.
She chuckled lightly, almost amused, as if my anger entertained her.
“Hit a nerve?” she tilted her head slightly. “But it is the truth, right? The truth always hurts, does it not? But I will still say it
