Chapter 46: Hugh’s POV - Let's Cancel the Engagement Ceremony

Back at the birthday party, Grandma asked the photographer to take a family photo.

"Shelia, come join us for the photo," Grandma waved to Shelia.

"That's not appropriate given my current status," Shelia politely declined.

I suddenly realized that in our three years of marriage, Shelia and I never had a single photo together. I gripped the sketchbook tighter. Besides these drawings, nothing remained of our marriage, as if it had flowed into the river of time.

That night, I drank a lot. It was the second time I broke my three-year sobriety.

The next morning, I woke up with a splitting headache. David and Susan had already gone to play tennis, and Carol rarely stayed home on weekends, always off to endless parties. The estate was unusually quiet.

I opened my phone to see Henry had sent me several surveillance videos from Mango Street. The woman in the video wore a baseball cap and mask, but the pixel quality was too low to make out her real appearance. I sent the videos to Travis; t