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Chapter Forty-Five

he is thinking and feeling. The suspense is literally killing me.
My heart is beating so fast I fear I will collapse at any moment.
He joins me on the sofa and we sit at opposite ends, both
staring into space as if the other doesn’t exist. And then … the
words come.
“Kelita, I don’t love you. I don’t know if I’ve ever really
loved you. I don’t think we should have ever gotten married.
Having Keldon has ruined our marriage.” He does not look at
me. He does not feel for me. He is a cold, hard statue, spewing
unthinkable words with no remorse or empathy.
I am stunned. I was expecting many things, but this is far
beyond my worst nightmare. The arrow that my husband has
so effortlessly shot straight into my heart has hit its mark. I am
destroyed. My world stops.
Is that it? Is life as I know it over?
I cannot stand to look at him. The room is thick with
silence. I can hear Barney in the next room and even that seems
surreal to me. What am I supposed to do now? What am I
supposed to say?
After what feels like a lifetime, I find my voice. “Are you
and Lenora ... are you and Lenora having an affair?”
“What?” He glares at me, shocked. “What are you talking
about, Kelita? Of course not.” He actually sounds sincere.
“Whatever made you say that?”
My voice is quivering. “Two nights ago, before you came
home, I was crying out to God. I was down on my knees
praying.” I am weeping now and swallowing my own tears as I
continue. “I desperately needed to know what was wrong with
our marriage, Gord.” My words feel strangled as I force them
from my lips. “And I saw a vision. It was you and her! And you
were very much a couple. Together!”
“What? Lenora and me? What are you talking about?”

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