He Chose Too Late to Love Me

Everyone knows Colin Dunn and I are trapped in a loveless marriage. We don't love each other. On our fifth wedding anniversary I am attacked in my own home. Terrified, I call him for help. The call connects then goes dead. In that instant I realize the full depth of our distance: he answers his first love instead of me. He chooses her. He hangs up and abandons me. The betrayal cuts through five years of indifference. A hollow marriage ends with one deliberate act, leaving me to face the aftermath and the painful truth that he loved someone else all along.