The next morning, the sun rose over a city that felt fundamentally different. The colors were desaturated, the noise sharper.
“Babe, can I borrow the car? Meeting Jackson at the gym,” Stuart asked, pouring himself coffee from my machine into my mug.
“Sure,” I said, tossing him the keys. “Have a good workout.”
The moment the door clicked shut, I moved. I didn’t cry. I didn’t collapse. I went to war.
I swept through the apartment like a forensic team. His laptop was locked, but his iPad—the one he used exclusively for sports and memes—was sitting on the nightstand. I guessed the passcode on the first try: 1234. Predictable.
I opened iMessage. It synced.
If the group chat was a river of sewage, his private chat with Jackson was the ocean it flowed into.
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