Chapter 119

Agatha

All through the car ride to Natalia’s school, I remained quiet while the soft music continued to play in the background and Natalia continued to work in her coloring book. I may not show it often, I may appear to be strong, but I only just hide my vulnerability through anger. I only just try to show people that I wasn’t affected by going off on everybody. I turn a blind eye to the littlest things because I say it doesn’t affect me. I try not to be remorseful because when you appear to be weak, people will take you for granted. And I didn’t want to be taken for granted. But it appears that after my many years of putting on an act, I was still as easily disposable to Lennox as I was the day I had married him. Not even years of marriage could change that. Not even our child together could change that. I was simply someone that Lennox had taken in to cover up the shame that accompanied being a mistress to a married man. It’s not in every story that the man marries his mistress and