Chapter 7 Marie Can't Escape
Marie couldn't believe what her husband had said.
“I don't want to be married to a queer.”
That statement sounded so preposterous, so outlandish. Why would anybody say such a thing? It sounded like something that might be said by a character on a TV show with bad writing. Who talked that way?
Her husband? Her own husband?
At first, Marie had laughed. She didn't know why. It didn't feel real. It couldn't be real.
But there was Shawn, sitting across the table from her, eating his mummified chicken in anger. He was real. Those words he'd said were real. Had he said them just to be hurtful? But why? Marie's s****l identity wasn't something they ever talked about, not anymore.
Even at the beginning of their relationship, they hardly ever talked ab
