A Secret Among Friends : A gripping psychological thriller by J.S. Ellis

Author:J.S. Ellis [Ellis, J.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Cat Ink Press
Published: 2023-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

It amazed me how well she disguised her distress from her husband. Zoë had cried for days after what happened on Christmas day. Yet, she looked like everything was fine when it wasn’t. Daniel was too focused on his job and maintaining their beautiful home, but if he glanced at her, he could surely tell something was off with his wife. It made me raise a few alarming questions when it came to marriages. Could someone be that blind? To take a hard look at your spouse and all you saw was them and not past them? This made me raise more questions about how well we know our partners, the people we spent our lives with. We learn a lot about the people in our lives, but does a man ever really know his wife? As a wife knows her husband? What about our parents? Does a daughter really know her father? Does a son really know his mother? The secrets we keep maintain that mystique, and Zoë was no different.

Zoë applied eye drops on her eyes to hide the redness and concealer to hide the dark circles. Makeup can do magic, but what about her attitude? She couldn’t be jolly all the time, but if she were quieter than unusual, Zoë would tell Daniel she was feeling “under the weather” or “her period was due”, but she never took it out on him. Zoë cried because of the anger that had developed in herself for being weak and stupid. And yet a week after the New Year, Zoë went to see Evan, she suggested in a public place to avoid anything “sexual,” she was quite hopeless, really. Did it make it safer seeing him in public? Her desperation of the situation was making her incapable of thinking straight. Evan insisted she come to him. Zoë went, dreaded it, and yet proceeded. Couldn’t she be a no-show? What was she afraid of? Evan knew where she worked, lived, and shopped. Would he be crazy enough to go to her workplace, where his lawyer would be? Or her house and what? Find Daniel and tell him he had been shagging his wife for nearly a year? What would it benefit him, certainly not her? She wouldn’t forgive him for doing something so reckless, and he’d shoot himself in the foot. So, I cannot understand why she didn’t leave him there waiting for her, but the devastating truth was Zoë had no intention of ending it.

Evan was smoking, his back facing her as he told her.

‘You are a real drag. You know that?’

‘How so?’

‘You doing something like that.’

‘You mean on Christmas day.’

‘Yeah...’

‘You don’t expect this to go on forever, it has to end at some point. You’ll dump me as soon as you meet a younger, prettier girl with a tighter body than mine.’

‘Stop it,’ he said. ‘Just stop. I don’t want them....’ He gestured towards the room as if an audience was watching them. ‘I want you.’

This warmed her heart, she told me.

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