Chapter 173

Ethan

The house was quiet. Too quiet for me to live in.

I stood in the living room, staring at the space where Reina had been sitting only moments ago.

She had walked out after another argument, and I was left to pick up the pieces of a conversation that went terribly wrong.

It always went wrong no matter how hard I tried.

I felt like everything was slipping through my fingers, like no matter what I did or said, nothing could fix this.

I was beginning to accept my fate because everything was becoming frustrating on my end.

I could not count the number of times I had sighed. It was countless.

I ran my hand through my hair, frustrated and tired of everything that was happening.

This was not how things were supposed to go.

We had a good life. We had a good family. Why couldn’t we just go back to the way things were before?

Before RiRi’s name came up again, before all the secrets I had tried so hard to bury started to resurface.

Was IG really necessary to tell your spouse all you