Chapter 54
SOPHIA
I knew something had gone wrong within a week of that lunch with Margaret, watching Daniel with a sick, sinking feeling that grew heavier every time I saw him look at Nora now. I'd expected suspicion.
Instead he seemed unable to look away from her at all, and not in the wary, guarded way I'd hoped for.
I saw it at a dinner party two weeks later, one of those business functions where wives were expected to smile and make small talk while their husbands actually conducted the evening's real business.
Daniel stood near the bar, and I watched his eyes track Nora across the room the entire time she talked with someone else's husband, some new intensity in his focus that had nothing to do with jealousy alone anymore.
He excused himself from his own conversation twice j
