She Used Me as a Stand-In, But Regretted It After I Was Gone
Language: en
It was the seventh year of my marriage to Chloe when her rich first love came back home. He had a face that looked strikingly similar to mine, almost as if he were my shadow. At the class reunion, he cornered me in the restroom, his voice dripping with condescension: "Tell me, every night when she sleeps next to you, is she thinking of you or me?" I couldn't hold back. My fist flew. But Chloe, of all people, screamed at me, her voice laced with fury, "Why don't you just drop dead?!" She had no idea. I was, indeed, dying. 1 At the class reunion, Chloe’s first love, Liam, made his…