Life After Perfect
“Not just to hide, but to catch her breath. The smells of the food in the bistro made her stomach roll like oil in a fryer.
Breathing, that thing your body knows how to do without thought. Her body had suddenly forgotten how.
She sucked in a deep breath and risked leaning out to look again. Katherine watched her husband hold his shiny red iPhone case to his ear. He reached his hand across the table to hold someone else’s, and his cheeks tugged in a smile.
“An all-day meeting?” she repeated, watching intently to gauge his response. “They won’t even let you out for like a fifteen-minute lunch break? I don’t mind waiting. I could meet you somewhere. Just a quick bite in your office, even.”
She watched the line of his jaw as he spoke. Though she couldn’t see him face on from her angle, the words coming across the phone line synchronized with his every movement.
She lifted a finger to the corner of one eye, and swept at the tears that were making her vision blurry.
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