The Kept Wife's Awakening
Language: en
I was the charity case, the poor student sponsored by the wealthy Sterling family. At twenty-two, I married Carter Sterling because I was pregnant. Carter was a notoriously severe germaphobe. He used separate serving spoons at dinner and refused to kiss me on the lips in bed. He even found it repulsive to drink from a glass I had used. But at a party recently, I watched him intercept a drink for his childhood sweetheart, his "one who got away," downing the very glass she had just sipped from to save her from drinking too much. In that moment, I knew our marriage was over.