Desperate Deception

“You didn't come home last night,” Marcus said as he took a sip of the wine in his glass, not bothering to face Monica as she sneaked into the house.

“Er …uhm” Monica stuttered, her mind completely blank. She had counted on Marcus not being around when she came home to pick up her things.

A confrontation with him was the last thing she wanted right now. “You are home?” She finally said

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