Chapter 138: Abandoned Wife

I came home with a heavy heart. The kind that sits in your chest like a soaked towel—heavy, cold, even almost impossible to wring out.

Mom was divorcing her shitty husband because, as she said, “I want to die a free woman.” Apparently, she’d spent her marriage feeling shackled and suffocated by his every command.

Did I feel pity for her? Maybe a little. Did I believe her? Not one bit.

I remember h