The Worst Thing I've Done by Ursula Hegi

Author:Ursula Hegi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2007-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

NIGHT, THAT same night, and when Annie awakens, suddenly and sweating, she’s flung across the side where Mason used to sleep. I am alone. Without him, the bed feels barren, his absence irretrievable.

“Damn you.” Having to discover over and over that he isn’t here anymore. She feels a blind rip-roaring anger. “Damn you for not letting me get back to what’s familiar. Just not there anymore, the familiar.”

“We could have gotten through this,” Mason says.

“No.”

“We could have lived apart for a month and—”

“No.”

“Six months.”

“No.”

“I bet you we would have been together again. Ultimately—”

“No.”

“I bet you—”

“I couldn’t have stayed with you.”

“Not even to keep me alive?”

“It’s too much work keeping you alive!”

Damn him. Making her forever the woman whose husband killed himself. Annie sees it in the faces of people who know. The speculation. She doesn’t speak with them, but her eyes warn them away. “Be careful,” she imagines telling strangers who encounter her. “You have no idea what I’m capable of. The person you see—hair skin eyes—contains someone entirely different. Medusa. Madonna. Flesh-eating harridan…”

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