Echoes of an Ex
Language: en
I divorced my uncle's commanding officer. It was ugly. He shielded the new female combat medic while I hurled three heavy glass ashtrays at them, and he responded by kicking me down a flight of stairs, causing me to lose my seven-month pregnancy. I left. I remarried. Life was quiet and mundane. Slowly, it smoothed over the madness and rage of those years. Until one evening, at a reunion of my current husband's platoon, one of his drunk army buddies mistook me for someone else. "Chloe, back then you thought Mark was too poor. You took all his severance pay and ran off to Europe. He had red…